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TIL Sega used the line “The more you play with it, the harder it gets” to sell the Genesis.

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9wJr TIL Hitler’s unpublished sequel to Mein Kampf, written in 1928, praised the US as a ‘racially successful’ society.
9A8m TIL a South African IT company proved that it was faster to send information via carrier pigeon than the country’s leading internet service provider.
ODJX TIL of a British proposal to have a sniper assassinate Hitler that was vetoed because it was ‘unsportsmanlike’
v1GLx TIL an 87-year old Grandmother didn't want to sell nor leave her 100-year old house so MLB baseball team owner could build a parking structure. The team owner offered to buy her a new house anywhere & financially support her for the rest of her life; which ended up being 6 weeks.
5YNVP TIL Thomas Edison tried to create the first-ever talking dolls. In 1890, thanks to the development of the wax cylinder, he was able to produce a line of baby dolls. With wooden bodies, porcelain heads, and miniature phonographs in their chests, the dolls were unlike any toy to exist at the time.