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TIL James Caan improvised scenes while filming The Godfather. He broke the FBI character’s camera after getting genuinely heated. From his upbringing, he instinctively pulled out money to pay for the damages and walked away.

by whatilearned July 7, 2022, 10:42 pm

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TIL that in 2007 a marketing campaign for Aqua Teen Hunger Force led to a bomb scare and 2 million dollars in damages

by whatilearned June 21, 2022, 6:05 pm

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TIL Wells Fargo was forced by the feds to rehire a whistleblower employee that reported fraud, and pay him $5.4 million in damages.

by whatilearned June 21, 2022, 1:02 am

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TIL The Spotted Lanternfly causes $550 million in yearly damages to the state of Pennsylvania

by whatilearned June 20, 2022, 7:35 pm

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TIL that in 2013 snipers opened fire on the Metcalf Power Substation in San Jose, California. In just under 10 minutes, they disabled 17 transformers and caused $15m in damages. The attackers are still unknown and the motive is still unknown.

by whatilearned June 7, 2022, 2:58 pm

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TIL in the countersuit of Billy Mitchell by Twin Galaxies arcade over fraudulent high scores, there was a request for $3,333,360 in general damages- same number as the possible highest Pac-Man score- and $3,160,200 in special damages- equal to the sum of Mitchell’s faked Donkey Kong scores.

by whatilearned April 16, 2022, 10:13 pm

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10 Things that Damages a Developer’s Career

by ProgrammerDude October 10, 2021, 1:08 am

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TIL about the Bakker-Schut Plan, which was a plan for the Netherlands to annex parts of North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower Saxony, two German states, as compensation for the damages caused during WWII. Ultimately, only a few area was annexed and were eventually returned to West Germany in 1963.

by whatilearned September 29, 2021, 3:36 pm

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TIL The bicycle company VanMoof found that many of their bicycles were being damaged during shipping to customers. They started putting a picture of an expensive flat screen TV on the boxes and shipping damages immediately dropped 70-80%.

by whatilearned September 1, 2021, 10:48 pm

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TIL Tom Cruise sued porn actor Chad Slater after he told a magazine he was involved in an affair with Cruise. Slater was ordered to pay $10 million in damages after defaulting on the suit, later admitting the story was false. Cruise has also sued two other publications for homosexual claims.

by whatilearned July 24, 2021, 3:09 pm

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Smokers' Sperm Less Fertile Smoking damages sperm, making them less likely to fertilize eggs — and making the embryos they do manage to create less likely to survive.

by DailyHealthNews July 2, 2021, 9:35 pm

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Little Risk of Guillain-Barré with H1N1 Flu Vaccine A new study affirms that the 2009 H1N1 flu vaccine, developed to counter the flu pandemic , does not substantially put people at increased risk of Guillain-Barré syndrome, a disorder in which a person's immune system damages nerves causing weakness and in some cases paralysis.

by DailyHealthNews June 26, 2021, 4:33 pm

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