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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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    Programmer Outsourced Job to China So He Could Surf Reddit and Watch Cat Videos
    A man secretly outsourced his programming job to China. He filled his work day watching cat videos, surfing Reddit and Facebook. Before being caught and fired, he made hundreds of thousands.
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    The Gmail logo was designed the night before it was launched.
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    Amazon sells more e-books than printed books.
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    Bill Gates could give away 98% of his wealth and still be a billionaire.
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    Microsoft made $16,005 in revenue in its first year of operation.
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    As part of an advertising campaign, Molson, a Canadian beer company, strategically placed 'beer fridges' around Europe that only Canadian passports could unlock.
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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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