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Today is June 6th National Yoyo Day! (On account of it being Donald Duncan’s Birthday).
Did you know that the world’s 2nd oldest toy is the yoyo? (after dolls). In Ancient Greece 2000 years ago yoyos were made out of terracotta.
In the 1920s a man from the Philippines – Pedro Flores was a bellhop at a Californian Hotel who loved to carve yoyos out of wood and play with them, (yoyos were Popular in the Philippines).
An entrepreneur Donald Duncan saw the yoyos and the rest is history. Duncan made the first plastic yoyos and developed the Butterfly model (makes it easier to land the trick on the string).
After the great yoyo boom in the early 1960’s the Duncan family ended up in court (trying to protect trademark issues) and ended up selling the company to Flambeau – a company that is still around!
This is the world’s biggest wooden operational yoyo.
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