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• Monopoly's Real Inventor Was Paid $500$500→80M setsInventor's payment → Sold by 1974

  A Washington stenographer patented a board game in 1904 to show how landlords get rich from rent. About 30 years later a Pennsylvania man sold a version of it as his own and became a millionaire. She got $500.

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  Play-Doh Started as a Wallpaper CleanerA dying cleaner→3B+ cansStarted as → Cans sold

  For twenty years a Cincinnati soap company lived on a putty that wiped coal soot off wallpaper. Then the soot went away, the company nearly went with it, and a nursery school teacher saw what the putty was really for.