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    90% of all restaurants fail during their first year of operation.
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    The first female self-made millionaire in America was a black woman.
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    Steve Jobs' annual salary was $1, just enough to keep company health benefits.
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    As of 2014, Apple has enough money to buy Facebook, or Netflix, Tesla, Twitter, Dropbox, Pandora, and Spotify combined - with $59 billion to spare!
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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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    The Shell Oil Company began as a novelty shop in London that sold sea shells.
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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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    The upside-down ketchup bottle earned its inventor 13 million dollars.
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