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TIL That Thomas Edison's engineers invented the first "talking doll" back in 1877

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Y7XoG TIL in 1983, a German newspaper paid 3.7 million dollars for copies of Hitler's diaries. They were authenticated by an expert. They were later found to be poor quality forgeries.
8aP9G TIL that the genesis is still being manufactured in Brazil and sells about 150,000 consoles per year
O0MR TIL The textbook industry is considered a “broken market” by economists and it has little internal competition
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