Microsoft made $16,005 in revenue in its first year of operation.
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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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Every year, Louis Vuitton burn all their unsold bags. They burn them in order to prevent them from being priced lower.
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The first female self-made millionaire in America was a black woman.
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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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In 1907, Kellogg’s launched a campaign called "Wink Day" to promote Cornflakes. Women were encouraged to “wink at your grocer and see what you get” (and what they got was a free box of cereal!)
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Oil tycoon, John D. Rockefeller, was the world's first billionaire.
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