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Richard Knerr, co-founder of the toy company that popularised the Hula Hoop, Frisbee and other fads that became classics, has died. He was 82. Knerr, who started Wham-O in 1948 with his childhood friend Arthur ”Spud” Melin, died on January 14 at Methodist Hospital in Arcadia, California, after suffering a stroke earlier in the day.