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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Colgate's first toothpaste came in a jar.
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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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Harrods have three private wells to supply their water!
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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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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 Shell Oil Company began as a novelty shop in London that sold sea shells.
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