The first product that the toy company Mattel came out with was picture frames.
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Dell's first advertisement was made on the back of a pizza box.
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If Wal-Mart was classified as a country, it would be the 24th most productive country in the world.
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The Shell Oil Company began as a novelty shop in London that sold sea shells.
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There's a café in France which charges €7 for a coffee to rude customers and €1.40 to people who talk politely to staff.
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As part of an advertising campaign, Molson, a Canadian beer company, strategically placed 'beer fridges' around Europe that only Canadian passports could unlock.
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In 1907, Kellogg’s launched a campaign called "Wink Day" to promote Cornflakes. Women were encouraged to “wink at your grocer and see what you get” (and what they got was a free box of cereal!)
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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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