Dell Computers was started by a 19 year old with only $1,000.
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If Wal-Mart was classified as a country, it would be the 24th most productive country in the world.
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90% of all restaurants fail during their first year of operation.
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Microsoft made $16,005 in revenue in its first year of operation.
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Coca Cola owns all the domain names that can be read as 'ahh'. Such as ahh.com, ahhhh.com, ahhhhh.com, and so on... all the way up to 62 h's!
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The first female self-made millionaire in America was a black woman.
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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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Instead of McDonald's tearing down a ~200-year-old Georgian mansion, citizens of a small NY town forced them to renovate it instead, resulting in a uniquely historic franchise location.
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