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TIL in 1999, Trey Parker and Matt Stone fought Paramount to keep South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut rated “R.” Paramount manipulated them toward a PG-13 rating by staging a meeting where one exec pretended not to know PG-13 films usually earn more money

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NXrk8 TIL a physician successfully avoided incriminating DNA evidence being gathered from him for 5 years by implanting a tube of foreign blood and anticoagulants in his arm, from which he made sure all samples would be drawn.
NXjeb TIL that the clothing company Patagonia has a sustainably sourced food line.
yVD7v TIL about Henry J. Kaiser, an American industrialist who helped build the Hoover Dam and whose steelyard made Liberty ships in WWII. At the height of his success he had his own automobile company and broadcast corporation. Today only the healthcare company Kaiser Permanente is left of his empire.
9ww5D TIL there are "Harbinger households": neighborhoods that consistently choose failed products and therefore could predict market failures
pY9d8 TIL William Shatner and Adam West starred in a failed pilot called "Alexander the Great" which West called "one of the worst scripts I have ever read and it was one of the worst things I've ever done."