The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.
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Samsung is also a full time weapons manufacturer.
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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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As part of an advertising campaign, Molson, a Canadian beer company, strategically placed 'beer fridges' around Europe that only Canadian passports could unlock.
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Hewlett Packard was started at a garage in Palo Alto in 1939.
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Amazon sells more e-books than printed books.
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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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