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There seems to be a strange fascination with these small dolls with oversized heads mounted on a spring, especially among baseball fans.

German bobble head dolls were made of ceramic and began production in the late 1700s, early 1800s. In the 1920’s the bobblehead came to sports, each being made exactly like the other. In the 1930’s the love of these died off, only to be reborn in the 1960’s when they started producing custom faces representing the most popular players of the time. When plastic bobblehead dolls were created in 1990’s, the industry once more saw a boom that has carried through straight into modern day, with ever more customizable options being presented with each passing year.

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Thousands of years ago, the Sumerians were the first, as far as we know, to use drinking straws. By the 1800s, rye grass straws were popular because they were cheap and soft. However, they tended to add flavor to the drinks and also tended to turn to mush.

Inventor Marvin C. Stone became especially frustrated by straws’ shortcomings, as the taste of the rye mixed with that of his drink. He then patented the modern drinking straw in 1888. The first straw Stone made was just paper wound around a pencil to make a thin tube, and he then slid out pencil out from one end and applied glue between the strips.

There used to be a local Italian food chain that used large tubes of pasta as straws. And yes, they did add flavor to the drinks.

Now, wearing my Hilton hat, plastic straws are deemed to be toxic to the environment. So, drink from paper, pasta, or metal straws!

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