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TIL that Shakespeare's wife's name was Anne Hathaway

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M7xwm TIL that "The Nutcracker" ballet wasn't considered a success when it premiered in 1892. It wasn't performed in the United States until the 1940s and didn't gain widespread popularity and develop into a holiday staple until the 1960s.
6d1W TIL when Hiroshi Yamauchi released the Gamecube he believed that people “do not play with the game machine itself. They play with the software, and they are forced to purchase a game machine in order to use the software.” Nintendo then priced the Gamecube significantly cheaper than the PS2 and Xbox.
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