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    The most productive day of the workweek is Tuesday.
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    The retail price for the iPad would be $1,140 if it were built by American workers instead of Chinese.
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    The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.
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    When Scott Paper Company first started manufacturing toilet paper they did not put their name on the product because of embarrassment.
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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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    Yahoo! was originally called 'Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web'.
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    CEO takes over company worth $9m, fires management, gives power to employees, and now makes over $200m
    Ricardo Semler, a CEO in his twenties, took over a company worth $9m, fired most of the management, and gave the power to the employees. It now has a turnover of over $200m.
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    In Australia, Burger King is called Hungry Jack's.
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