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In 2008, no studio would insure Robert Downey Jr. for Iron Man because of his post-rehab record, so Marvel wrote him a base salary of $500,000 and a backend cut of the gross. E…

Bobby Bonilla last played for the New York Mets in 1999. The Mets still cut him a $1,193,248.20 check every July 1, and will until 2035, because owner Fred Wilpon deferred…

Warner Bros. offered Jack Nicholson $10 million to play the Joker in Tim Burton's 1989 Batman. His agent dropped the salary to $6 million in exchange for points on the box offi…

Sean Connery was offered Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings: $10 million plus 15% of worldwide gross across all three films. He passed because he "never understood it." The trilo…

Clooney, his neighbor, and a billionaire built a tequila in a Cabo garage. Diageo paid them up to $1 billion.

Dmitry Agarkov got a Tinkoff credit card offer with 45% interest buried in the fine print. He scanned it, rewrote the terms to 0% interest, no fees, and added a clause that…

In 1974, FedEx had $5,000 left in the bank and a $24,000 fuel bill due Monday. Founder Fred Smith took the cash to Las Vegas, played blackjack, and walked out w…

When the 2022 drought dropped Lake Mead to its lowest level since filling in 1937, boaters at Hemenway Harbor found a corroded 55-gallon barrel containing human remains…

On November 7, 2020, Rudy Giuliani held a Trump campaign press conference at Four Seasons Total Landscaping in northeast Philadelphia, two doors from Fantasy Island Adult Books…

On December 1, 2021, Better.com CEO Vishal Garg opened a Zoom call with about 900 employees and said, "If you're on this call, you are part of the unlucky group that is being laid off."…

Iwao Hakamada spent 45 years on death row before Japan finally acquitted him, ending one of the longest wrongful-conviction ordeals ever recorded.

New York is paying $36 million to the two men cleared in the Malcolm X case after Muhammad Aziz spent 20 years in prison and Khalil Islam died before the settlement landed. A r…

Air Canada's lawyers told a tribunal that the airline's chatbot was a separate legal entity responsible for its own actions, after the bot invented a refund policy that does no…

Röbynn Europe said Equinox ignored racist and sexist comments, then fired her after she complained. A jury sided with her and hit the luxury gym with $11.25 million in dama…

Bill Bader ran Missouri's largest peach farm until Monsanto's dicamba herbicide drifted in from neighboring fields and killed 30,000 of his trees. Discovery turned up 180 internal documents…

Trailer manufacturer Wabash National knew a safer rear guard design existed for 30 years - it cost $313 per trailer to install. The company chose not to. In May 2019, Taron Tai…

Wayne McLaren spent the 1970s modelling for Marlboro print ads. Then 30 years of smoking gave him lung cancer - and when he started speaking out, Philip Morris flatly d…

Walmart agreed to buy more than $500 million in medical gloves, then backed out - and an Arkansas jury hit it with a $101 million verdict.

A truck hit Timothy Kuhn's stationary car at 45 mph. His insurer USAA - which had already ruled him not at fault - offered $10,000 for the traumatic brain injury then intervened in his lawsuit…

The Nashville Marriott at Vanderbilt confirmed Erin Andrews' room number to a caller and booked him into the adjacent room. Michael Barrett then used a hacksaw to modify her pe…

When Rosario Juarez told her AutoZone district manager she was pregnant, he replied "Congratulations... I guess," then added "I feel sorry for you." She was demoted, then fired…

Donald Miller Jr. of Arcadia, Ohio vanished in 1986 and was declared legally dead in 1994 so his ex-wife could collect Social Security. In 2013, he walked into Hancock County P…