Duracell, the battery-maker, built parts of its new international headquarters using materials from its own waste.
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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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Warner Chappel Music owns the copyright to the song 'Happy Birthday'. They make over $1 million in royalties every year from the commercial use of the song.
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Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin Group, is dyslexic.
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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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Microsoft made $16,005 in revenue in its first year of operation.
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In the mid-90’s, Coca Cola recalled an advertising poster due to a hidden sexual image.
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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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