Tippe top

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What Wikipedia says

A tippe top is a kind of top that when spun, will spontaneously invert itself to spin on its narrow stem. It was invented by a German nurse, Helene Sperl in 1891.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Tippe top”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Gellender at English Wikipedia, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.