Yahoo! was originally called 'Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web'.
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Nokia was once famous as a manufacturer of toilet paper.
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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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80% of Publishers' Clearing House $10 million winners did not purchase any magazine subscriptions!
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Steve Jobs' annual salary was $1, just enough to keep company health benefits.
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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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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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