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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Oil tycoon, John D. Rockefeller, was the world's first billionaire.
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Yahoo! was originally called 'Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web'.
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There’s a KFC for deaf people in Pakistan, India, and Egypt.
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A Kodak engineer constructed the first digital camera in 1975. They didn't want to go digital. They went bankrupt in 2012.
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Nokia was once famous as a manufacturer of toilet paper.
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Steve Jobs' annual salary was $1, just enough to keep company health benefits.
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