Reality TV Shows That Are Completely Scripted

Deadliest Catch

The TV fishing crews make money from the producers, not from the fishing industry. They have no incentive to meet fishing quotas. They also typically splice together old storm footage to make the ocean events seem more deadly.

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The More You Know

  • Roughly 600 Parisians work at the Eiffel Tower each day.
  • The first American woman to go to medical school was admitted as a joke. Geneva Medical School thought it was joke when Elizabeth Blackwell applied to attend 1847. She graduated in 1849, started her own practice, and opened an infirmary for the poor.
  • Reed Hasting started Netflix after receiving $40 in late fees when returning Apollo 13.
  • An oyster's sex is fluid.
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