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TIL that “Breakfast is the Most Important Meal of the Day” idea came from a company trying to sell more cereal during its 1944 marketing campaign
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TIL for each new film, a movie is set up as its own corporation, the entire point of which is to lose money. This is so actors, writers, and other individuals who are promised a share of the profits actually earn nothing since the movie, as a corporation, technically lost money.
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TIL that the Slurpee was invented by accident at a Dairy Queen. The owner, Omar Knedlik, didn’t have a soda fountain and so kept them cool in his freezer. He left them in too long, but served them to customers anyway. They loved it.