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These 101 cool random fun facts will blow your mind. Use these interesting fun facts to learn something new today to amaze adults and kids alike.

Elbert Hubbard, an American original

Craft classes, sleepovers in historic houses, and other ways families can experience the legendary U.S. architect’s dazzling properties.

Some toys sprang from failed scientific endeavors or accidents. Other were inspired by parents jobs.

Illustration by Dorothy Leung, Published 14:38, Apr. 21, 2021 As kids, my younger brother and I would snicker whenever my mother stopped to run her palms over what she thought was an exciting bit of a building. It could have been a limestone handrail at a shopping mall, a granite column at an old bank, or reclaimed wood at a hipster restaurant; sometimes, she would take our little hands and guide us to do the same. To this day, I can walk into a room and estimate its ceiling height becaus...

1. Lincoln Logs John Lloyd Wright, son of architect Frank Lloyd Wright, invented this classic building set. The original instructions included plans for a replica of Abraham Lincolns cabin, obviously, but also directions for building Uncle Toms cabin. 2. Tinkertoys After a stonemason saw kids building things with pencils and spools of thread, he got the idea for Tinkertoys. 3. Hula Hoops Hula Hoops have been around forever in various formats, but the official Wham-O toy was invented in 1958. Th...

John Grindrod: Once upon a Christmas time, what lay beneath the boughs By John Grindrod - Guest Columnist Of course, it had to be some yuppie type that coined that sentiment that he who dies with the most toys wins, perhaps after buying that third jet ski. However, the older I get and the more nostalgic, the more I realize that while there may be some satisfaction in getting an adult toy, that still doesn’t compare to the anticipation of what was seen lying beneath the tinsel-draped branches ...

Join Of the thousands of toys given to American girls and boys over time, what are the greatest? This writer, a lifelong toy collector and longtime toy columnist, decided to tackle that massive question. We’ll start at the year 1900, we’ll exclude board and card games (surely worthy of their own list), and we’ll exclude athletic equipment. Not every selection may be your particular cup of pretend tea, but each one was chosen according to The Tom Morello Scale of “impact, influence, and...

Laura ingle has the story. >> generations of american kids have grown up with lincoln logs, constructing miniature forts and buildings and knocking them down. created in 1916, the iconic american toy, designed by john lloyd wright -- the son of famous architect frank lloyd wright -- has been outsourced to china for manufacturing for the last 60 years. now the little logs are coming home. >> its taken us almost five years to figure it out, but for next holiday season we are going to have made in ...

he was beginning to talk about this is the beginning of the end of the war in afghanistan with the first lady at his side the crowd in the marine base in hawaii erupted >> we have been in continuous war now for 13 years, over 13 years and next week, we will be ending our combat mission in afghanistan. afghanistan has a chance to rebuild its own country. we are safer. it is not going to be a source of terrorist attacks again. >> reporter: but attacks are obviously still a big concern ...