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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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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Dell's first advertisement was made on the back of a pizza box.
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Nintendo has banked so much money, they could run a deficit of over $250 million every year and still survive until 2052.
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7-11 sells 10,000 pots of coffee an hour, every hour, every day.
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All 3 founders of Apple worked at Atari before forming Apple.
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There’s a KFC for deaf people in Pakistan, India, and Egypt.
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Newman’s Own foods donates 100% of its post tax profits to charity. As of June 2012 these donations have exceeded 330 million dollars.
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