History Fun Facts September 15th
HISTORY FUN FACTS SEPTEMBER 15th On this day in history in 1254, Marco Polo was born. Marco Polo was, of course, the creator of the much loved game, Marco Polo, and the mint with the hole. Legend tells that Marco was blind, incompetent at navigation, lived his entire life in a swimming pool, was very needy in trying to find friends, really wanted to be a bat, and had really bad breath. Thus came the creation of the game, where everyone jumps into the swimming pool, one person is "Marco" or "It", and the other players are "Polo". The person who is "It" closes their eyes and trundles around the pool shouting "Marco", imitating the call of a bat in their echo-location, trying to find their friends. When the friends, or fellow players, hear the shout "Marco" they must respond with "Polo, for crying out loud stick a polo in your mouth and suck, your breath stinks of donkey poo." Or somethi...