Blockbuster laughed at a Netflix partnership proposal in 2000.
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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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Nintendo has banked so much money, they could run a deficit of over $250 million every year and still survive until 2052.
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A man sued Bank of America for erroneously foreclosing on his home and won. When they didn’t pay the fees, he foreclosed their bank.
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Colgate's first toothpaste came in a jar.
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7-11 sells 10,000 pots of coffee an hour, every hour, every day.
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McDonald's serves 75 hamburgers every second, according to the company’s Operations and Training Manual.
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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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