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From Tidal to Trump University: the museum that remembers major failures

The Museum of Failure covers everything from flopped movies to disastrous food products, celebrating the missteps that many have decided to forget
The Trump board game in the Museum of Failure. Photograph: Penguin Vision Photography

For your viewing pleasure, downtown LA’s new Museum of Failure has gathered together some of history’s most ill-conceived ideas.

There’s the Shared Girlfriend, a $45-a-day rental sex doll that the Chinese company Taqu launched in September – and recalled just two days later, due to a government backlash – which sits right across from a small shrine to some of the current president’s shortest-lived ventures. There’s Success Distilled, AKA a

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