Despite drinking up to two liters a day of water, she was also severely dehydrated. With her hit-and-miss eating habits, she was not getting the amount of sodium or electrolytes required for her body to retain the water — she was literally drinking herself into dehydration. Basically, she...
Butts created a game during the Depression where lettered tiles were assigned points on a crossword puzzle-style grid. Butts came up with names for the game like CrissCross Words and Lexiko before licensing the idea to James Brunot, who called it Scrabble. Sales were fairly abysmal at first...