Hewlett Packard was started at a garage in Palo Alto in 1939.
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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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There's a company in China that allows you to hire someone to stand in line for you for $3-$5 an hour.
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Newman’s Own foods donates 100% of its post tax profits to charity. As of June 2012 these donations have exceeded 330 million dollars.
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Samsung is also a full time weapons manufacturer.
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In Chinese, the KFC slogan "finger lickin' good" comes out as "eat your fingers off".
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Japan is the largest exporter of frog's legs.
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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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