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    Henry Ford, father of the Automobile, is also father of the charcoal briquette.
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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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    Amazon sells more e-books than printed books.
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    Programmer Outsourced Job to China So He Could Surf Reddit and Watch Cat Videos
    A man secretly outsourced his programming job to China. He filled his work day watching cat videos, surfing Reddit and Facebook. Before being caught and fired, he made hundreds of thousands.
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    The first product that the toy company Mattel came out with was picture frames.
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    Lenovo CEO Redistributed His $3M Bonus to 10,000 Employees. Twice.
    As a reward for record profits, the CEO of Lenovo, Yang Yuanqing, received a $3 million bonus, which he redistributed to about 10,000 of Lenovo's employees. He did the same again in 2013.
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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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    Dunkin' Donuts in South Korea started spraying coffee aroma into public buses every time their jingle played. Coffee sales increased 29%.
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