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In the 1800s, when people would run up debt and couldn’t pay, there was no such thing as a charge-off or protective bankruptcy. People who owed money would go to debtors’ prisons. Men would move into the prisons with their families and all of their possessions. A lot of the men were prosperous in their past lives (often beyond their means, which put them in a debtors’ prison in the first place), and they had tennis racquets (racket is also an acceptable spelling) with them. They started playing ball with their racquets against the prison walls.

Most people think snowboarding is a very new concept, first invented in the last couple of decades. Surprisingly enough, the first snowboards can be traced back to the 1920s! Men and older boys would take plywood or boards from the sides of barrels tied together with clothesline as their base. They would then use horse reins or some more clothesline to try to keep their feet tied into place on the boards. These brave ones then slid down snow-covered hills standing up on boards that would make up the first stories of the history of snowboarding 80 years later.

The very first Thanksgiving was a bit different than most of us think – a pilgrim would usually only wear his black and white outfit to church, and buckles weren’t yet in fashion. There were no forks at the party. In fact, there was only one fork in all of America at the time. Everyone ate with spoons, knives, and their hands.