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1956
Play-Doh developed from a soft compound sold for cleaning soot from wallpaper. It was repurposed as a children's modeling material in the 1950s, with teacher Kay Zufall playing an important role.
Rent
Rent is the largest revenue category McDonald's reports from franchised restaurants, ahead of royalties. That does not mean rent is most of all corporate revenue, or that every franchise follows the same property arrangement.
1889
Nintendo traces its origins to Fusajiro Yamauchi making hanafuda playing cards in Kyoto in 1889. Its first home video game machines arrived in 1977, nearly nine decades later.