Did ya Know?

 **Parcheesi 

is the 3rd best selling game in the history of the United States?

** The game was also 

the favorite of Thomas Edison 

& President Calvin Coolidge?

**Trivial Pursuit

 was invented by 2 newspaper

men, Chris Haney and Scott Abbott?

** Their favorite game was Scrabble?

**By late 1983, three and a half million games had been sold, only a year after the game went to the mass market?

** Today there are at least 19 versions of the game in different languages in 30 different countries?

**After the American Civil War,

 toy soldiers were made of sugar and chocolate so they were edible?

**In France more than 5 million toy soldiers were made from discarded sardine cans?

** GI Joe made his first appearance in 1062?

Thanks to my favorite book, Toys! Amazing Stories Behind Some Great Inventions by Don Wulffson and illustrations by Laurie Keller.