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• [Corporation fact 1] Warner Bros canceled Home Alone because they didn’t want to spend $14.7 million on it. 21st Century Fox then continued its production and the film grossed $476 million worldwide.

  Corporation, Finance, Moviessource

• [Corporation fact 2] In the 1960s, the sugar industry paid three Harvard scientists $50,000 to say that heart disease was most likely caused by saturated fat. After their report was published in JAMA, diets concentrating on low fat gained the endorsement of many health authorities. Decades of this misinformation campaign shaped improper nutritional advice and caused the rise of heart disease in America. When WHO wanted to add a limit sugar to no more than 10% of a healthy diet, America threatened to pull out their funding if they didn't raise it to at least 25%.

  Corporation, Countries, Food, Healthsource

• [Corporation fact 3] Henry Ford was an anti-semite and a Nazi supporter and used his company, money, and influence to spread and legitimize antisemitic views. He blamed every national problem on Jews, from strikes to depressions, and received the “Grand Cross of the German Eagle” from the Nazis in 1938.

  Corporation, Nazisource

• [Corporation fact 4] About 26 states in the U.S. do not require employers to provide meal or rest breaks to their employees.

  Corporation, Countriessource

• [Corporation fact 5] IBM once required employees to sing praises of its president and company from the official IBM Songbook.

  Corporation, Musicsource

• [Corporation fact 6] Burt Shavitz, the founder of Burt's Bees was forced out of the company he founded and lost millions of dollars. He reluctantly still promotes the company for equity while his former romantic partner made $177 million.

  Corporation, Peoplesource

• [Corporation fact 7] In 1959, Guinness dropped 150,000 special “messages in a bottle” into the Atlantic Ocean to celebrate its 200th birthday, making it one of the longest ad campaigns ever.

  Corporation, Honorsource

• [Corporation fact 8] Tsuyoshi Kikukawa, the CEO of Olympus was fired when he discovered that $1.6 billion of the company's money had been paid to the yakuza gang.

  Corporation, Financesource

• [Corporation fact 9] Atari programmers met with Atari CEO Ray Kassar in May 1979 to demand that the company treat developers as record labels treated musicians, with royalties and their names on game boxes. Kassar said no and that "anyone can do a cartridge." So the programmers left Atari and founded Activision.

  Corporation, Gamessource

• [Corporation fact 10] FDA has banned the use of microplastic in rinse-off cosmetics.

  Corporation, Drugs, Foodsource

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