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TIL that A.C.Gilbert’s science based toys were so popular that he was called ‘the man who saved christmas’ by the papers.For a year, his company sold a kids 'atomic energy lab’ complete with Geiger counter, mini cloud chamber, and samples of several radioactive elements.

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