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.
Yes, a regular body cell has 23 pairs of chromosomes, so 46 chromosomes in total. 23 chromosomes come from your mom in the form of the haploid gamete (egg), and 23 from your father in a haploid gamete (sperm). Once the sperm fertilizes the eggs, it becomes a diploid zygote. I think you have the second part a little mixed up.