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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The Shell Oil Company began as a novelty shop in London that sold sea shells.
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In 2013, AOL declared that they still made over $500 million a year through dial-up internet subscriptions.
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McDonald's serves 75 hamburgers every second, according to the company’s Operations and Training Manual.
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The first McDonald’s drive-thru was opened near a military base in Arizona “to serve soldiers who weren’t permitted to get out of their cars while wearing fatigues.”
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In 1907, Kellogg’s launched a campaign called "Wink Day" to promote Cornflakes. Women were encouraged to “wink at your grocer and see what you get” (and what they got was a free box of cereal!)
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There's a company in China that allows you to hire someone to stand in line for you for $3-$5 an hour.
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Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin Group, is dyslexic.
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