Xavier Roberts is the inventor of the Cabbage Patch Kids, though he originally sold the toys under the name Little People. The vast majority of toy companies rejected the brand because they thought the Cabbage Patch Kids were too ugly to be marketable.
Fun Fact: Origin of Snow Globes
Snow globes have been a part of human history since at least the 1878 World’s Fair in Paris, France.
Fun Fact: Alternative Names For Ouija Boards
Ouija boards are also known as switch boards, spirit boards, and talking boards.
Fun Fact: The Unique RPG Makers Behind Enix’s Star Ocean
The team behind Star Ocean, tri-Ace were mainly comprised of video game programmers that worked on Tales of Phantasia and were unhappy with it.
Things I Like: Dr. Grant Linkletter (Young Sheldon)
Dr. Grant Linkletter was a decent character on Young Sheldon, but far from the best of the minor characters. Heck, he isn’t even one of the best people that works at the university that Sheldon attends. He’s a colleague of John Sturgis and he becomes one of Sheldon’s college professors when he’s taken out of…


Formed in 2009, the Archive Team (not to be confused with the archive.org Archive-It Team) is a rogue archivist collective dedicated to saving copies of rapidly dying or deleted websites for the sake of history and digital heritage. The group is 100% composed of volunteers and interested parties, and has expanded into a large amount of related projects for saving online and digital history.
