Earlier this week, England’s Parliament announced that a secret door had been discovered in the walls of Westminster Hall. Inside, historians found “graffiti” left in 1851 by a bricklayer who was “fond of Ould Ale.”

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Hashimoto created the Konami Code—up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, start—to make it easier to test games he found too tough to play through.
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