Dell Computers was started by a 19 year old with only $1,000.
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A full-time cashier at Costco makes about $49,000 annually. The average wage at Costco is nearly 20 dollars an hour and 89% of Costco employees are eligible for benefits.
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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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The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.
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Instead of McDonald's tearing down a ~200-year-old Georgian mansion, citizens of a small NY town forced them to renovate it instead, resulting in a uniquely historic franchise location.
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90% of all restaurants fail during their first year of operation.
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Blockbuster laughed at a Netflix partnership proposal in 2000.
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Coca Cola owns all the domain names that can be read as 'ahh'. Such as ahh.com, ahhhh.com, ahhhhh.com, and so on... all the way up to 62 h's!
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