3 Cursed Christmas Toys From Your Childhood With Fascinating Origins

3 Cursed Christmas Toys From Your Childhood With Fascinating Origins

What do Tickle-Me-Elmo, Furby, and Cabbage Patch Kids all have in common? Well, they're objectively some of the weirdest toys ever given as Christmas presents, but they also all have fascinating origin stories ranging from amusing to straight-up terrifying. Melissa digs into the toys of Christmas past to try and explain why we ever cared about these things.

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