The Shell Oil Company began as a novelty shop in London that sold sea shells.
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Yahoo! was originally called 'Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web'.
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Warner Chappel Music owns the copyright to the song 'Happy Birthday'. They make over $1 million in royalties every year from the commercial use of the song.
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The CEO of Japan Airlines makes $90,000 a year, less than the pilots. During an interview, he said "We in Japan learned during the bubble economy that businesses who pursue money first fail. The business world has lost sight of this basic tenet of business ethics."
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McDonald's serves 75 hamburgers every second, according to the company’s Operations and Training Manual.
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A Kodak engineer constructed the first digital camera in 1975. They didn't want to go digital. They went bankrupt in 2012.
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