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    Duracell, the battery-maker, built parts of its new international headquarters using materials from its own waste.
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    Yahoo! was originally called 'Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web'.
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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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    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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    The first product that Sony came out with was the rice cooker.
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    Coca Cola owns all the domain names that can be read as 'ahh'. Such as ahh.com, ahhhh.com, ahhhhh.com, and so on... all the way up to 62 h's!
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    In Australia, Burger King is called Hungry Jack's.
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    Blockbuster laughed at a Netflix partnership proposal in 2000.
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