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    Apple co-founder Ronald Wayne sold his 10% share in 1976 for $800. Today, it’s worth over $58 billion.
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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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    Duracell, the battery-maker, built parts of its new international headquarters using materials from its own waste.
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    Nearly 22,000 checks will be deducted from the wrong account over the next hour.
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    A Kodak engineer constructed the first digital camera in 1975. They didn't want to go digital. They went bankrupt in 2012.
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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 creator of the NIKE Swoosh symbol was paid only $35 for the design.
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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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