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TIL a classmate of Anne Frank, Theo Coster (Morris Simon, 1928-2019), founded with his wife Ora (1931-2021) a game design company which invented popular games such as Guess Who?, Zingo! and the breast-inspired Pop-It fidget toy. Their headstones were made to resemble the Guess Who? flip-up frames.

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