15th Anniversary: Fun Facts about The Sims

In February 2015, The Sims was celebrating 15 years of plumbobs, WooHoo and other fan stuff. If you are following @TheSims on Twitter or The Sims page on Facebook, you must have seen a good deal of Fun Facts posts and learned a bunch of cool stories about the history of The Sims. Here below just a few:

• The first item ever created in The Sims? A toilet.
• Simoleons? They got their name from the 18th century British slang for sixpence: simons.
• Definition of the plumbob? ""A plumb-bob or a plummet is a weight, usually with a pointed tip on the bottom, that is suspended from a string and used as a vertical reference line, or plumb-line. It is essentially the vertical equivalent of a "water level"".
• In The Sims, you could have a baby as a result of kissing someone.
• In The Sims, Claire the Bear was an actual bear that would steal from your picnic basket or dig in your trash.

You can read the whole article at the Official Site.

Source: www.thesims.com