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    Steve Jobs' Secretary
    Steve Jobs' Secretary
    Steve Jobs' secretary told him that she was late for work because her car wouldn't start. That very afternoon, Jobs came back and threw her a set of keys to a brand new Jaguar, saying: "Here, don’t be late anymore."
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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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    There’s a KFC for deaf people in Pakistan, India, and Egypt.
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    The Gmail logo was designed the night before it was launched.
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    Henry Ford, father of the Automobile, is also father of the charcoal briquette.
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    CEO takes over company worth $9m, fires management, gives power to employees, and now makes over $200m
    Ricardo Semler, a CEO in his twenties, took over a company worth $9m, fired most of the management, and gave the power to the employees. It now has a turnover of over $200m.
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    7-11 sells 10,000 pots of coffee an hour, every hour, every day.
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    Yahoo! was originally called 'Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web'.
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