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    There’s a KFC for deaf people in Pakistan, India, and Egypt.
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    The creator of the NIKE Swoosh symbol was paid only $35 for the design.
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    Cow is a Japanese brand of shaving foam.
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    As of 2014, Apple has enough money to buy Facebook, or Netflix, Tesla, Twitter, Dropbox, Pandora, and Spotify combined - with $59 billion to spare!
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    Microsoft made $16,005 in revenue in its first year of operation.
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    The retail price for the iPad would be $1,140 if it were built by American workers instead of Chinese.
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    CEO takes over company worth $9m, fires management, gives power to employees, and now makes over $200m
    Ricardo Semler, a CEO in his twenties, took over a company worth $9m, fired most of the management, and gave the power to the employees. It now has a turnover of over $200m.
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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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