90% of all restaurants fail during their first year of operation.
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Ma Yu Ching’s Bucket Chicken House in Kaifeng, China is considered the world’s oldest operating restaurant, first opening in 1153 AD during the Jing Dynasty.
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The upside-down ketchup bottle earned its inventor 13 million dollars.
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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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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 first product that the toy company Mattel came out with was picture frames.
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Henry Ford, father of the Automobile, is also father of the charcoal briquette.
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