While not poisonous substances, heat and humidity from summer weather can be deadly to pets. Most pets donât perspire like humans, but use their lungs to get rid of excess heat. As the ambient temperature and humidity rise, their ability to cool in this manner fails and they suffer from heat stroke.
Senet is the oldest board game known to exist. Sets have been found in burial chambers from as far back as 3,500 B.C.âincluding four in Tutankhamenâs tomb. Game boards were three squares wide and ten squares long, and sets typically had five to seven pieces for each player.
Chess is the oldest surviving game, it was played by the Egyptians. The first board game to be manufactured in the USA was The Mansion of Happiness issued in 1843. The earliest known interactive electronic game was by Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr. and Estle Ray Mann on a cathode ray tube. Issued on December 14, 1948.