The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.
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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 first Ronald McDonald was Willard Scott in 1963.
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In October 1997, when Internet Explorer 4.0 was released, some Microsoft employees left a giant "From the IE team... We Love You" on Netscape's lawn.
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Hewlett Packard was started at a garage in Palo Alto in 1939.
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The CEO of Japan Airlines makes $90,000 a year, less than the pilots. During an interview, he said "We in Japan learned during the bubble economy that businesses who pursue money first fail. The business world has lost sight of this basic tenet of business ethics."
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Steve Jobs' annual salary was $1, just enough to keep company health benefits.
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