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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In March, 2014, Colorado sold $19 million dollars worth of Cannabis. $1.9 million went to schools and crime fell by 10%.
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McDonald's serves 75 hamburgers every second, according to the company’s Operations and Training Manual.
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HP, Google, Microsoft, and Apple have one thing in common – apart from the obvious that they are IT companies. They were all started in garages.
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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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In Chinese, the KFC slogan "finger lickin' good" comes out as "eat your fingers off".
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