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TIL when the game Twister was first introduced in 1966, one of Milton Bradley’s competitors denounced the game & accused them of selling “sex in a box”, & Sears refused to put it in their catalog, deeming it inappropriate. But after Johnny Carson featured it on ‘The Tonight Show’, sales skyrocketed.

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