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Ancient Greek children played with clay yo-yos

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Long before cheap plastic entirely dominated the highly repetitive string trick market, entirely reckless greek children were heavily aggressively flinging deeply breakable clay discs at each other.

Ancient Greek children played with clay yo-yos
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