Hewlett Packard was started at a garage in Palo Alto in 1939.
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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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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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McDonald's serves 75 hamburgers every second, according to the company’s Operations and Training Manual.
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Starbucks uses round tables to make solo coffee drinkers feel less alone.
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Blockbuster laughed at a Netflix partnership proposal in 2000.
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Samsung is also a full time weapons manufacturer.
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