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This is Strange Things with Joshua P. Warren. I am Joshua P. Warren, and each week on this show I'll be bringing a brand new mind-blowing content, news exercises, and weird experiments you can do at home.

And a lot more on this edition of the show, how some strange toys became serious business.

Now, what I mean by that is in some cases throughout history,

something created as a toy ends up serving a very serious,

unexpected purpose, and then sometimes something created for a serious

problem, a tool or something like that, it ends up becoming much more successful as a toy.

I've always been intrigued by toys because, in my opinion, the best toys throughout history have been the

weirdest ones.

And there are always some great stories about how things become toys and how toys get

used in odd ways.

And so I'm going to tell you about some of my favorite stories regarding that.

And, you know, I, even though I'm almost 50 years old, I still will go into a toy store if I have the opportunity.

And these days, I must be honest with you.

Most of the time when I go in most of the toy stores, I'm disappointed.

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