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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The CEO of Japan Airlines makes $90,000 a year, less than the pilots. During an interview, he said "We in Japan learned during the bubble economy that businesses who pursue money first fail. The business world has lost sight of this basic tenet of business ethics."
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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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Blockbuster laughed at a Netflix partnership proposal in 2000.
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Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft was a college drop out.
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Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin Group, is dyslexic.
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McDonald's serves 75 hamburgers every second, according to the company’s Operations and Training Manual.
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