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    90% of all restaurants fail during their first year of operation.
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    The founder of McDonald's has a Bachelor degree in Hamburgerology.
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    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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    The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.
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    Yahoo! was originally called 'Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web'.
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    Lenovo CEO Redistributed His $3M Bonus to 10,000 Employees. Twice.
    As a reward for record profits, the CEO of Lenovo, Yang Yuanqing, received a $3 million bonus, which he redistributed to about 10,000 of Lenovo's employees. He did the same again in 2013.
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    Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin Group, is dyslexic.
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    Oil tycoon, John D. Rockefeller, was the world's first billionaire.
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