Ed Cox from San Francisco invented the pot scrubbing S.O.S. pads in 1917. His wife came up with the name, which stands for "Save Our Saucepans."

Since its introduction in February 1935, more than two hundred million Monopoly board games have been sold worldwide.

The year that read the same upside down was 1961. That won't happen again until 6009.

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