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223: No Such Thing As A Worthless Doorstop

No Such Thing As A Fish

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The Slinky Business Nearly Goes Bankrupt

The slinky was invented by a guy called richard james, who was an engineer. He worked on a navy shipyard and noticed some springs acting oddly walking. And so he said to his wife, i think i can make a toy out of this. And it was huge, and it sold out, and he got very rich. Then he turned to religion, christianity, to be specific. And started giving away all this money. His wife was like, ond my god. We were almost broke. The business almost went bankrupt because the slinks inventor kept the proceeds away to religious cults. It is time for fact number three, and that is chezinsky

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