Monopoly Money vs. Real Money
On the 2002 South African Monopoly board, buying Clifton, the game’s most expensive property, cost R40,000. In real life, a… Read More
Fact-a-day archive
The Pokemon worth more than a Picasso
In February 2026, a single Pokémon card, a PSA Gem Mint 10 “Pikachu Illustrator,” sold at auction for $16.492 million,… Read More
Fluent in Winning
New Zealand Scrabble player Nigel Richards won the French World Championship in 2015 after studying the French word list for… Read More
Bigger Than the Universe
In the 1950s. There are an estimated 10¹²⁰ possible chess games – far more than the roughly 10⁸⁰ atoms in… Read More
The Price of Influence
In South Africa, influencers earn an average of around R4 354 for a static post and R7 335 for a… Read More
Too Young to Scroll?
Since 10 December 2025, social-media platforms in Australia must take reasonable steps to prevent children under 16 from having accounts… Read More