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Steve Jobs' secretary told him that she was late for work because her car wouldn't start. That very afternoon, Jobs came back and threw her a set of keys to a brand new Jaguar, saying: "Here, don’t be late anymore."

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Warner Chappel Music owns the copyright to the song 'Happy Birthday'. They make over $1 million in royalties every year from the commercial use of the song.

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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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Cow is a Japanese brand of shaving foam.

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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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Henry Ford, father of the Automobile, is also father of the charcoal briquette.

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Walt Disney World generates about 120,000 pounds of garbage every day.

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All 3 founders of Apple worked at Atari before forming Apple.

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