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TIL there’s a museum in Amsterdam that houses deformed human embryos and other such abnormalities

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1aEnr TIL Lego started by copying their product and designs from Hilary Fisher Page's Kiddicraft Blocks, eventually driving him to suicide after his company was ruined
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