Nintendo suddenly stopped communicating with Sony about the console the two companies were meant to create together. The name of the videogame was PLAYSTATION.
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Twelve publishing houses rejected JK Rowling's Harry Potter manuscript.
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In 1977, Kodak filed a patent for one of the first digital cameras, but they decided to focus purely on film and film cameras. They went bankrupt in 2012.
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In 2013, a British guy named James Howells threw away a hard drive containing a virtually worthless cryptocurrency known as Bitcoin.
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On March 30, 1867, the United States reached an agreement to purchase Alaska from Russia for a price of $7.2 million. The Russian government thought it was just a useless tundra.
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A hunter starts the biggest fire in California history. (2003)
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Napoleon’s army attempted to invade Russia 200 years ago...
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New Mexico loses control of a controlled burn in the Cerro Grande. (2000)
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In 2009, Facebook turned down a pair of programmers for jobs. A few years later, though, the pair developed WhatsApp. Facebook subsequently purchased that venture for $19 billion.
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Captain Edward Smith crashes the Titanic into an iceberg. (1912)
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PIPER BRAVO OIL RING: A safety inspector forgot to replace a valve after a routine check, and when a worker (unaware that a valve was missing) pushed the start button, gas leaked out. The explosion killed 167 men.
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Yahoo rejected offer to buy Google for $1 million. (1998)
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