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History's worst designs?

History may be written by the victors, but we ignore the losers at our peril. At least, that's what Sweden's Museum of Failure will have us believe.

Displaying around 80 examples of failed products, businesses and ideas -- from Coca Cola's ill-fated "Coke II" to the infamous Sony Betamax -- the newly opened museum celebrates modern history's most notorious flops. ... 

The collection even features Donald Trump's discontinued Monopoly-style board game, "Trump: The Game."

Read entire article at CNN