Over at Mental Floss, there's a very cool article on how the board game Monopoly was used during World War II to help free Allied prisoners. If it's true, it's pretty amazing. And if it's not, it'll still make for interesting cocktail talk. Check it out, and tell us if you believe it or not.

Then later, I'll tell you how hungry, hungry hippos helped topple the Czar in the Bolshevik Revolution.