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Everything you never wondered about those wooden castle-like playgrounds of Gen X and

millennials youths.

Plus how a nano-thin layer of gold could finally be the cure to the dreaded glasses fog of our COVID-masking era.

Here's some cool stuff for your ride home.

I saw some photos circulating recently of playgrounds from the early 1900s.

One in particular shows a structure of sparse bars about

two to three stories tall with kids climbing all over the top of it hanging off some elevated

swings or crawling up ladders with more than 20 steps on them. Compared to the rounded plastic

playground equipment today, designed to be

safe, educational, and lawsuit-resistant, it nearly looks like some kind of trap intentionally

designed to harm kids. Playgrounds weren't designed with much safety in mind until the 1980s, at least in the U.S.,

when our litigious nature became overwhelming. According to defunct outlet hopes and fears,

it was in 1981 that several highly publicized playground injuries led to the first ever safety guidelines for playgrounds from the U.S. Consumer

Safety Commission. Those of us who grew up in the 1980s and 90s will remember seeing the

playgrounds of our youth change over the years. The metal slides replaced with plastic ones,

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