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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Henry Ford, father of the Automobile, is also father of the charcoal briquette.
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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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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 CEO of Japan Airlines makes $90,000 a year, less than the pilots. During an interview, he said "We in Japan learned during the bubble economy that businesses who pursue money first fail. The business world has lost sight of this basic tenet of business ethics."
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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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Amazon sells more e-books than printed books.
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There's a café in France which charges €7 for a coffee to rude customers and €1.40 to people who talk politely to staff.
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