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    90% of all restaurants fail during their first year of operation.
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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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    Lentil As Anything, a successful Australian restaurant, allows its customers to pay whatever price they feel like paying for the food.
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    The first female self-made millionaire in America was a black woman.
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    Carlos Vasquez, a dry cleaner in New York, has a sign outside his shop that reads: If you are unemployed and need an outfit clean for an interview, we will clean it for free.
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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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    Microsoft made $16,005 in revenue in its first year of operation.
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    All 3 founders of Apple worked at Atari before forming Apple.
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