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Scrabble, a child of the crisis

The famous game to form crosswords on squares which bring more or less points is, him, well born from the crisis of 1929.

Alfred Mosher Butts, a New York architect in his thirties with a passion for anagrams (these words made up of the same letters), finds himself unemployed.

 Idle, he imagines a game to put his passion for words within everyone's reach. He has the idea of ​​token letters.

 To determine the number of each letter and its value according to frequency in English, he analyzes a dictionary and three newspapers including the New York Times.

The game is called Lexiko. He deposited it in 1948, in the United States.

Now called Scrabble, it landed in France in 1955.

It got off to a mixed start, but Club Med activity leaders… gradually introduce holidaymakers to it.

Today, almost all French people (nearly 60% have one, according to its publisher Mattel) know Scrabble.

There is a French federation, a competition, a magazine...

Nearly 150 million Scrabble games have been sold in 121 countries, in 36 languages, including Latin and... Braille.

He would even be at the origin of the Trivial Pursuit.

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Monopoly, a socialist utopia

The genesis of Monopoly is one of the most amazing.

In the midst of the economic crisis, in Philadelphia, south of New York, an unemployed man had cobbled together, on a piece of cardboard, land to buy or rent.

From the start, there was a box for prison, one for making money...

Charles Darrow became the inventor of a game symbolizing capitalism.

The problem is that Charles Darrow copied Elisabeth J. Maggie's game.

When she registered her game in 1904, Elizabeth Magie's objective was to demonstrate the excesses of monopoly.

Cie Parker is going to redeem its rights for a pittance.

Since then, 275 million Monopoly, now owned by Hasbro, have been sold.

The game has several hundred versions in 111 countries in 43 languages.

Since 2009, Monopoly has also been played on screen.

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One of the longest bridges in the world

And the longest bridge is the Danyang-Kunshan Grand Bridge in China.

He is huge !

This large bridge between Shanghai and Nanjing has a total length of 164.8 kilometers.

 It took 4 years to build this amazing work.

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Original sports activities

To satisfy your cravings for extreme and unique experiences, head to Asia, as there are plenty of unorthodox activities to do.

Like SkyCycle in the Philippines, where your bike sits on a cable over 18 meters high and travels a distance of 200 meters in the sky.

You can also go to Huashan Mountain for an unforgettable experience by climbing the death trail, where you can touch the clouds and see incredible and impressive panoramas.

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Cascading China!

The desire to be the best is expressed in everything they do, especially in architecture and money.

 For example, there is the 121-meter Liebian Building skyscraper.

 But the particularity of the building is an incredible artificial waterfall 108 meters high, the maintenance system of the waterfall alone occupies 4 complete floors of the skyscraper!

Running the waterfall is quite expensive, and the electricity alone costs $116 per hour.

 It is for this reason that the waterfall only operates during holidays.

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Sleeping everywhere is normal

When you're traveling on the subway in Tokyo, walking down the street, or working in a Japanese office, don't be surprised to see people sleeping everywhere.

 People are real workaholics and therefore take advantage to take a 30-minute nap during their travels to feel better.

There's even a special name for sleeping on the job.

 This is called inemuri and it is considered a sign of dedication to work.

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