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    At YouTube Headquarters, employees can either take the elevator, stairs or slide.
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    80% of Publishers' Clearing House $10 million winners did not purchase any magazine subscriptions!
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    There is no tipping at restaurants in Japan.
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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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    McDonald's serves 75 hamburgers every second, according to the company’s Operations and Training Manual.
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    The upside-down ketchup bottle earned its inventor 13 million dollars.
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    Dmitry Argakov
    Dmitry Argakov
    A man named Dmitry Argakov was sent a letter offering him a credit card but he didn’t like the terms. So he altered the contract to include unlimited credit at 0% interest which the bank accepted but then tried to void his card. He sued the bank for not sticking to terms of the credit contract and won.
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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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