Hewlett Packard was started at a garage in Palo Alto in 1939.
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Starbucks uses round tables to make solo coffee drinkers feel less alone.
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Ma Yu Ching’s Bucket Chicken House in Kaifeng, China is considered the world’s oldest operating restaurant, first opening in 1153 AD during the Jing Dynasty.
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Amazon sells more e-books than printed books.
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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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The upside-down ketchup bottle earned its inventor 13 million dollars.
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Dell Computers was started by a 19 year old with only $1,000.
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As of 2014, Apple has enough money to buy Facebook, or Netflix, Tesla, Twitter, Dropbox, Pandora, and Spotify combined - with $59 billion to spare!
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