Business Facts
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- 'Bimbo' is a brand of soft drink manufactured and marketed by Coca-Cola, Inc.
- 20% of tuxedo rentals take place in May.
- 7-11 sells 10,000 pots of coffee an hour, every hour, every day.
- 80% of Publishers' Clearing House $10 million winners did not purchase any magazine subscriptions!
- 90% of all restaurants fail during their first year of operation.
- Colgate's first toothpaste came in a jar.
- Cow is a Japanese brand of shaving foam.
- Duracell, the battery-maker, built parts of its new international headquarters using materials from its own waste.
- Harrods have three private wells to supply their water!
- Henry Ford, father of the Automobile, is also father of the charcoal briquette.
- If Wal-Mart was classified as a country, it would be the 24th most productive country in the world.
- In 2004, The Japanese Ice Cream Association promoted "raw horse flesh" ice cream in hopes that it would boost the popularity of ice cream!
- In Australia, Burger King is called Hungry Jack's.
- In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch or clock is usually 10:10.
- Microsoft made $16,005 in revenue in its first year of operation.
- Nearly 22,000 checks will be deducted from the wrong account over the next hour.
- Oil tycoon, John D. Rockefeller, was the world's first billionaire.
- Over 4.6 million Whopper sandwiches are sold at Burger King every day!
- The average company saves over $7,000 for each employee suggestion that is enacted!
- The creator of the NIKE Swoosh symbol was paid only $35 for the design.
- The first product that Sony came out with was the rice cooker.
- The first product that the toy company Mattel came out with was picture frames.
- The man who created the Thighmaster was once a Bhuddist Monk.
- The most productive day of the workweek is Tuesday.
- There is no tipping at restaurants in Japan.
- Walt Disney World generates about 120,000 pounds of garbage every day.
- Warner Chappel Music owns the copyright to the song 'Happy Birthday'. They make over $1 million in royalties every year from the commercial use of the song.
- When Scott Paper Company first started manufacturing toilet paper they did not put their name on the product because of embarrassment.
- Yahoo! was originally called 'Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web'.
