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    90% of all restaurants fail during their first year of operation.
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    Harrods have three private wells to supply their water!
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    The first product that Sony came out with was the rice cooker.
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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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    The Shell Oil Company began as a novelty shop in London that sold sea shells.
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    Yahoo! was originally called 'Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web'.
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    Nokia was once famous as a manufacturer of toilet paper.
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    Apple co-founder Ronald Wayne sold his 10% share in 1976 for $800. Today, it’s worth over $58 billion.
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