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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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    When Scott Paper Company first started manufacturing toilet paper they did not put their name on the product because of embarrassment.
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    The first product that Sony came out with was the rice cooker.
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    Nokia was once famous as a manufacturer of toilet paper.
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    Dmitry Argakov
    Dmitry Argakov
    A man named Dmitry Argakov was sent a letter offering him a credit card but he didn’t like the terms. So he altered the contract to include unlimited credit at 0% interest which the bank accepted but then tried to void his card. He sued the bank for not sticking to terms of the credit contract and won.
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    Microsoft made $16,005 in revenue in its first year of operation.
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    Blockbuster laughed at a Netflix partnership proposal in 2000.
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    The man who created the Thighmaster was once a Bhuddist Monk.
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