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    Oil tycoon, John D. Rockefeller, was the world's first billionaire.
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    Nokia was once famous as a manufacturer of toilet paper.
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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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    Henry Ford, father of the Automobile, is also father of the charcoal briquette.
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    Dmitry Argakov
    Dmitry Argakov
    A man named Dmitry Argakov was sent a letter offering him a credit card but he didn’t like the terms. So he altered the contract to include unlimited credit at 0% interest which the bank accepted but then tried to void his card. He sued the bank for not sticking to terms of the credit contract and won.
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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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    The creator of the NIKE Swoosh symbol was paid only $35 for the design.
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    The upside-down ketchup bottle earned its inventor 13 million dollars.
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