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    If you pronounce the names of products wrong in an Apple Store, employees are not allowed to correct you.
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    Free Russian Coffee Houses
    Free Russian Coffee Houses
    There are coffee houses in Russia where food and drink are free, but you pay for time.
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    The creator of the NIKE Swoosh symbol was paid only $35 for the design.
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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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    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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    Cow is a Japanese brand of shaving foam.
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    The first product that the toy company Mattel came out with was picture frames.
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    The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.
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