The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.
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In Chinese, the KFC slogan "finger lickin' good" comes out as "eat your fingers off".
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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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Blockbuster laughed at a Netflix partnership proposal in 2000.
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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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The first Ronald McDonald was Willard Scott in 1963.
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The Shell Oil Company began as a novelty shop in London that sold sea shells.
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