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BY Todd Coopee December 27, 2019 Filed to: Profiles of Ingenuity

Profiles of Ingenuity

Bob Keeshan, a.k.a. Captain Kangaroo, would have turned 88 this week. Here are 7 things you may not know about the television legend.

A.C. Gilbert left a promising career in medicine to create toy kits that inspired generations of engineers, scientists, and tinkerers.

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