Did you know???

That modern yo-yos were brought to America by a Filipino man named Pedro Flores in the 1930s.  Yo-yo means "come back" in tagalog.  He mass-produced the toys in his small toy factory in California.  Later Donald Duncan (I remember having a green plastic Duncan yo-yo as a child) bought the rights from Flores and began producing them.

Some say that yo-yos were used originally as weapons, for hunting animals, in the Philippines.  These were much larger than toy ones and some had spikes on the sides.

I also read that yo-yos are thought to be the 2nd oldest toys in the world-after dolls.

By the way-I didn't just decide to google about yo-yos because I didn't have anything else to do.  Scott is researching them for something at school.