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TIL in 2006, Emerson Electric filed suit against NBC after the pilot episode of Heroes featured Claire Bennet reaching into an active garbage disposal and injuring her hand. The company claimed the scene "casts the disposer in an unsavory light, irreparably tarnishing the product".

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