The Shell Oil Company began as a novelty shop in London that sold sea shells.
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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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Steve Jobs' annual salary was $1, just enough to keep company health benefits.
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The first female self-made millionaire in America was a black woman.
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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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The man who created the Thighmaster was once a Bhuddist Monk.
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Microsoft made $16,005 in revenue in its first year of operation.
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As of 2014, Apple has enough money to buy Facebook, or Netflix, Tesla, Twitter, Dropbox, Pandora, and Spotify combined - with $59 billion to spare!
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