Early Addition: How Selling Cutco Knives Became The Go-To Pyramid Scheme For Dudes
March 3, 2021, 10:47 a.m.
Because it's knives, bro, here are your early links: someone's getting extremely rich off their Connecticut yard sale find, Alamo Drafthouse files for bankruptcy, a rare photo of a rare black panther and more.
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- "The most attractive direct-sales job for dudes": Here's how selling Cutco knives became the go-to pyramid scheme for young men.
- An anonymous browser who shelled out $35 for a bowl at a Connecticut yard sale then discovered that it's an "exceptional" 15th century Ming Dynasty bowl that could go for $500,000 when they auction it off later this month.
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