Colgate's first toothpaste came in a jar.
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Nokia was once famous as a manufacturer of toilet paper.
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There's a café in France which charges €7 for a coffee to rude customers and €1.40 to people who talk politely to staff.
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90% of all restaurants fail during their first year of operation.
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The CEO of Japan Airlines makes $90,000 a year, less than the pilots. During an interview, he said "We in Japan learned during the bubble economy that businesses who pursue money first fail. The business world has lost sight of this basic tenet of business ethics."
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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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As part of an advertising campaign, Molson, a Canadian beer company, strategically placed 'beer fridges' around Europe that only Canadian passports could unlock.
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