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Shockingly Dangerous Toys Your Grandparents Played With
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Before the age of cellphones and even TV screens, kids spent much more time outside, running rampant with unsupervised abandon and relying largely on their imaginations for entertainment — as well as the popular toys of the era. It may seem like a rosy picture, but what’s often forgotten in the hue of nostalgia is how dangerous some toys were back in the old days. Your grandparents and possibly even your parents were kids before a wealth of emergency-room data had been analyzed, and no one knew how lethal certain toys could be. From explosive Ping-Pong ...Read More
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Arts & CultureFact23The “Guinness Book of Records” was created to settle arguments in pubs.
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