The island of Manhattan was purchased for wampum. Wampum was used as the main form of Native American Money because it had value as a decorative item, and many Native Americans pierced holes at the top of their wampum and wore them in a belt rather than carrying wampum in a bag.
The human male gamete, also known as a sperm cell, contains 23 chromosomes in total. Humans have 22 chromosome pairs as well as two sex chromosomes, for a total of 46 chromosomes. The gamete produced by each sex contains half, or 23, of these chromosomes.
Gametes are haploid. They have 23 chromosomes - not pairs, just one of each. BUT - they don't just randomly inherit one of the chromosomes - there's a mixing process, where bits of the maternal and paternal chromosomes are swapped around.