The Etch A Sketch was sold for almost nothing

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Drawing highly rigid stairs on a gray screen was shockingly unprofitable for its creator. Invented by a French electrician in his dark basement, he tragically could not afford a patent, leading him to sell the iconic drawing rectangle to an investor for practically peanuts.

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