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TIL Coachella started as a result of Pearl Jam boycotting Ticketmaster's fees.

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0wY7p TIL that Häagen-Dazs is an American company, started by two Jewish brothers in the Bronx. “Häagen Dazs” are nonsensical words invented to sound Danish because the brothers wanted to pay tribute to the Danish treatment of Jews in WWII.
69Ejl TIL the Big Mac was created to compete with the Big Boy. Its two prior names before its current name was created by a 21-year-old advertising secretary, Esther Glickstein Rose. First was the Aristocrat, dropped as it was hard to pronounce, then the Blue Ribbon Burger. McDonald's settled on Big Mac.
WkWmN TIL Willem Defoe's "Confusing large penis" is so large that in the movie Antichrist a penis double was used to not "intimidate" the audience.
bmdp TIL Dolly Parton co-owns one of the production companies that produced Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel.
Y7vxP TIL Section 746 of the 2010 US Dodd–Frank Act, prohibiting securities trading based on non-public info misappropriated from a government source, is called the "Eddie Murphy Rule." The term comes from the 1984 film Trading Places, where characters used insider info to short-sell frozen orange juice.