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    The average company saves over $7,000 for each employee suggestion that is enacted!
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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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    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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    In 2004, The Japanese Ice Cream Association promoted "raw horse flesh" ice cream in hopes that it would boost the popularity of ice cream!
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    The creator of the NIKE Swoosh symbol was paid only $35 for the design.
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    Duracell, the battery-maker, built parts of its new international headquarters using materials from its own waste.
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    The retail price for the iPad would be $1,140 if it were built by American workers instead of Chinese.
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    All 3 founders of Apple worked at Atari before forming Apple.
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