When Scott Paper Company first started manufacturing toilet paper they did not put their name on the product because of embarrassment.
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Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft was a college drop out.
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The first McDonald’s drive-thru was opened near a military base in Arizona “to serve soldiers who weren’t permitted to get out of their cars while wearing fatigues.”
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90% of all restaurants fail during their first year of operation.
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Blockbuster laughed at a Netflix partnership proposal in 2000.
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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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The creator of the NIKE Swoosh symbol was paid only $35 for the design.
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