Duracell, the battery-maker, built parts of its new international headquarters using materials from its own waste.
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Every year, Louis Vuitton burn all their unsold bags. They burn them in order to prevent them from being priced lower.
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The Shell Oil Company began as a novelty shop in London that sold sea shells.
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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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80% of Publishers' Clearing House $10 million winners did not purchase any magazine subscriptions!
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In 1907, Kellogg’s launched a campaign called "Wink Day" to promote Cornflakes. Women were encouraged to “wink at your grocer and see what you get” (and what they got was a free box of cereal!)
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Yahoo! was originally called 'Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web'.
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The first McDonald’s drive-thru was opened near a military base in Arizona “to serve soldiers who weren’t permitted to get out of their cars while wearing fatigues.”
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