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    Starbucks uses round tables to make solo coffee drinkers feel less alone.
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    Walt Disney World generates about 120,000 pounds of garbage every day.
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    The first product that Sony came out with was the rice cooker.
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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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    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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    The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.
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    Newman’s Own foods donates 100% of its post tax profits to charity. As of June 2012 these donations have exceeded 330 million dollars.
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    Dell Computers was started by a 19 year old with only $1,000.
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