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TIL the family of the late Paul Newman was forced off the board of the Newman’s Own charitable food company by Robert Forrester, who has since raised his own salary as CEO by 50%

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69NjZ TIL that the Blind Boys of Alabama, active for 83 years, still have an original member
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awM7b TIL that the Hays code had a rule only allowing kissing to go on for 3 seconds in movies. Alfred Hitchcock got around this rule for his 1946 film, Notorious, by two actors break off every three seconds. The whole sequence lasts two and a half minutes.
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