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TIL Radio AAHS was a successful ‘90s children radio network robbed by Disney. During a brief partnership in ‘96, Disney stole AAHS’ trade secrets and program model to create Radio Disney. In a later lawsuit, a jury found Disney guilty and ordered them to pay $20 million in damages.

by whatilearned January 20, 2023, 12:35 pm

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TIL an English naval force successfully conquered Quebec in 1629. However, because the capture had happened after peace was signed in Europe, France and England agreed that it didn’t count, so England returned Quebec and even paid for damages.

by whatilearned January 15, 2023, 1:31 am

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TIL Johnson & Johnson lost thousands of lawsuits costing billions in damages over their talcum-based baby powder, and then created a subsidiary to dump on that liability onto before declaring the subsidiary went bankrupt, shielding them from the lawsuit claims

by whatilearned December 31, 2022, 9:33 am

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TIL in 2007, a mother of three died from acute water intoxication after participating in a radio station competition called “hold your wee for a Wii,” her family was awarded $18 million in damages

by whatilearned October 24, 2022, 9:44 am

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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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