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TIL that Barbie was created by Ruth Handler, who saw a market for adult dolls since most at the time represented infants. Barbie was redesigned from a doll she found in Germany that was depicted as a "working girl" and described as sassy, ambitious, and “a gold-digger, exhibitionist, and floozy."

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