The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.
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The Shell Oil Company began as a novelty shop in London that sold sea shells.
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Starbucks uses round tables to make solo coffee drinkers feel less alone.
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The first Ronald McDonald was Willard Scott in 1963.
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The co-founder and CEO of SnapChat, 23-year-old Evan Spiegel, turned down an offer of $3 billion from Facebook and then a $4 billion bid from Google.
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Blockbuster laughed at a Netflix partnership proposal in 2000.
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The upside-down ketchup bottle earned its inventor 13 million dollars.
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