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TIL that Wes Craven placed a torn poster of Jaws in the background of The Hills Have Eyes to communicate to the audience that he believed his movie was much scarier. Later, Sam Raimi places a torn poster of The Hills Have Eyes in The Evil Dead to communicate the same message towards Craven

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Wk4YY TIL about the Capital Allowances for Intangible Assets, a tax evasion scheme used by Apple, in which a company reroutes its profits to a tax heaven, but also lends itself money to start the scheme and deducts interest on the loan to avoid even more taxes
eOn5 TIL that the phrase “third world” was coined during the Cold War and refers to any country not involved in the competition of democracy vs communism at the time.
RKoa TIL there’s a village in India that exclusively produces bouncers and bodyguards for New Delhi nightclubs
mGXo TIL: One of the submersibles used to dive the Titanic was attacked by a swordfish which got trapped in it’s skin causing it to make an emergency surface. They then cooked it for dinner
awa09 TIL The Lord of the Rings films originally would have been released by Disney via Miramax but they chose not to fund it due to costs. They let New Line Cinema have it on the condition they pay $10M in "turnaround" costs. The LOTR trilogy will later on gross over $2.9B at the global box office.