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    90% of all restaurants fail during their first year of operation.
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    The upside-down ketchup bottle earned its inventor 13 million dollars.
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    Volvo's Overseas Delivery Program
    Volvo's Overseas Delivery Program
    Americans buying a Volvo can get a free holiday to Sweden to test drive their new car. All costs, including airfare and shipment of the car, are covered by the Volvo Overseas Delivery program.
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    Dell Computers was started by a 19 year old with only $1,000.
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    The retail price for the iPad would be $1,140 if it were built by American workers instead of Chinese.
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    McDonald's serves 75 hamburgers every second, according to the company’s Operations and Training Manual.
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    Ma Yu Ching’s Bucket Chicken House in Kaifeng, China is considered the world’s oldest operating restaurant, first opening in 1153 AD during the Jing Dynasty.
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    CEO takes over company worth $9m, fires management, gives power to employees, and now makes over $200m
    Ricardo Semler, a CEO in his twenties, took over a company worth $9m, fired most of the management, and gave the power to the employees. It now has a turnover of over $200m.
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