FACTS TO BLOW YOUR MIND

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Play-Doh started out as a wallpaper cleaner before the head of the struggling company realized the non-toxic material made a good modeling clay for children and re-branded it.

In the 1940s, a retired schoolteacher came up with Candy Land to entertain children who were hospitalized from polio. Because its color system required no reading, young kids could easily play.

Scooby Doo's real first name is Scoobert.

Before 1913, parents could mail their kids to Grandma’s— through the postal service.

At around the 28th week of pregnancy, babies can begin to smell the same smells as their mother. In fact, the amniotic fluid enhances a baby’s sense of smell.

If babies’ bodies grew at the same rate as their brains, they would weigh 170 pounds by the time they turn 1 month old.

When researchers offered kids broccoli or a chocolate bar, four out of five kids picked the chocolate, but when an Elmo sticker was placed on the broccoli, fifty percent chose the broccoli. (NutritionFacts.org)

Mozart’s kids used to taunt him by playing incomplete scales on the piano forcing him to rush downstairs and complete them.

You might know a or a soccer mom, but do you know a 'lawnmower' mom... who goes to whatever lengths are necessary to mow down adversity, struggle, or failure for her child.

"Mickey Mouse" was the secret password used by Allied intelligence officers leading up to the D-Day invasion of 1944.