Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft was a college drop out.
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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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As part of an advertising campaign, Molson, a Canadian beer company, strategically placed 'beer fridges' around Europe that only Canadian passports could unlock.
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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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20% of tuxedo rentals take place in May.
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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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7-11 sells 10,000 pots of coffee an hour, every hour, every day.
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The Shell Oil Company began as a novelty shop in London that sold sea shells.
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