Childhood memories preserved at the Lunchbox Museum
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Cartoon characters, TV stars and superheroes fill the shelves of the Columbus, Ga., repository of school lunch history
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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Forward-Answer-4407 on 2024-01-24 13:15:23+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that the Rambo lunchbox by Thermos in 1985 marked the end of the metal lunchbox era. Manufacturers switched to making lunchboxes with plastic because it was cheaper and because a group of mothers in Florida complained that metal lunchboxes were being used by children as weapons.