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TIL That The World Championship in Monopoly has been held fourteen times, last time in 2015 and won by italian Nicolò Falcone. The grand prize was $20,580 USD, which is also the amount of money included in a set of Monopoly.

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kJp45 TIL In March 12, 1961, a character named Dennis the Menace debuted in the British comic “The Beano", a few hours later, an unrelated newspaper comic was released in the USA, with the character also being called Dennis the Menace.
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