This informative post will be posted on Saturday along with my usual writing.  We can all appreciate some of the lesser known facts from around the world.

The first ten moves of chess can be played roughly 170,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 possible ways.

Illinois Avenue has been mathematically proven to be the square on the Monopoly game board that the highest probability of being occupied by a player.  The “Go” square comes in second.

These facts have been discovered in I NEVER KNEW THAT by David Hoffman (2009).