Similar thing happened with Star Wars, during the production of The Empire Strikes Back everyone tried squeezing them for more money. That's why Return of the Jedi was produced under the code name "Blue Harvest".

They gave up on that, their earliest Mickey Mouse shorts have entered the public domain while the mouse himself is still a trademark.

Don't they have a "Peter Pan & Wendy" movie coming up?

What are you responding to?

Fun fact, while popularly called "unsinkable", the closest any official publication got was an engineering magazine calling it "Practically unsinkable" referring to the bulkheads built into the structure. Neither the company nor Andrews, the designer, claimed it.

Honestly I'd do the same. There's been three different movies made about the WWII Wannsee Conference, clearly audiences are not adverse to watching people in a room discussing historically famous events as they happened.

The lifeboats were deliberately underloaded at the davits, because the crew was worried that they would break apart if filled to full.

From the Senate inquiry:

> Sen. Smith: how many persons will a lifeboat the size of No, 5 hold safely, on a clear night and with no sea?

> Mr. LOWE:
Do you mean to ask what she would hold in the water or what would she hold lowering?

> Senator SMITH:
No; I want you to tell me how many she will hold lowering.

> Mr. LOWE:
That depends upon the caliber of the man lowering her.

> Senator SMITH:
Does it not depend upon the gear?

> Mr. LOWE: It depends upon the gear also, sir. You will say to yourself, "I will take the chance with 50 people in this boat." Another man will say, "I am not going to run the risk of 50; "I will take 25 or 30."
> [...]
> Senator SMITH:
I want that understood. Do you wish the committee to understand that a lifeboat whose capacity is 65 under the British regulations could not be lowered with safety, with new tackle and equipment, containing more than 50 people?

> Mr. LOWE: The dangers are that if you overcrowd the boat the first thing that you will have will be that the boat will buckle up like that (indicating) at the two ends, because she is suspended from both ends and there is no support in the middle.

IIRC Germany tried taxing (well, seizing the property of) fleeing rich Jews to fund the deportation of poorer Jews. This isn't an attempt at whitewashing Nazi Germany, it was the most practical solution at the time for getting rid of the most Jews. However so few countries accepted them, or rather many countries that did were soon to be invaded and annexed anyway, that..."evacuation" to the East was the second solution, followed by...well. We all know what they picked next...

Honestly my vague memories of first year programming were suggesting a binary search (first half of the alphabet or second, first half of your subsequent selection or second) but a grid is much faster.

It used to be a popular naming scheme, especially among Scottish immigrant families, to insert a false middle initial that doesn't stand for anything. IIRC Hunter S Thompson is an example.

Thanks, genuinely did not know if it was a water or wind turbine since both were used for flour grinding.

And IIRC they got an anonymous condom delivery service set up there after an Internet poll, much to the residents' consternation.

EDIT: Durex cancelled the scheme after seeing poll results.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/durex-sos-condoms-go-flaccid-over-batman/

That's the one.

I can even remember the scene, paraphrased:

> Lois: stares

> Dewey: (flat) "I'm cold. We should come down. This wasn't such a good idea. I'm scared. We're disappointing her-"

> Malcolm: (shaking him) "DEWEY! Stop looking at her!"