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Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Play-Doh
TIL: Play-Doh was originally started as cleaner for coal residue one home wallpaper in the 1930s. When people stopped using coal for home heating, a nursery school teacher helped repurpose it for kids modeling clay in the 1950s and she also came up with the name Play-Doh
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Coal residue on their wallpaper…
Imagine the coal residue lining their lungs
A fun podcast on this [here](https://play.acast.com/s/patented-history-of-inventions/play-doh).
Obviously a lie. Homer Simpson is obviously the guy who named it.