Fred's Fun Fact: Nerf Balls!

Find out this fun fact about Nerf balls!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Fread Show is on Ye Bread's Fun Fact Fred
Fund so much guys? Did you know that the nerf
ball was invented by Parker Brothers in nineteen seventy, or
at least that's who distributed it. I think there was

(00:21):
a documentary or a thirty for thirty or something about
the guy who actually invented the nerf ball. Now did
you get as rich as he was supposed to? I
can't remember the story about though. Anyway, they wanted the
public to be aware of how safe the four inch
foam choy was. To do that, they included text on
the box that told buyers throw it indoors, you can't
damage lamps or break windows. They also added you can't

(00:44):
hurt babies or old people. Set it right on the box,
you can't hurt babies or old people.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
I'm not finding a documentary lots of history though.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
I think it was something on ESPN about the guy
who invented it, maybe like people didn't want to believe
in it or thought it was stupid and then he
wound up, you know, selling a gazillion of him or
something like that. But yeah, right there in the box,
you can't hurt babies. Or old people. That's a selling point.
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