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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 retail price for the iPad would be $1,140 if it were built by American workers instead of Chinese.
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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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    Henry Ford, father of the Automobile, is also father of the charcoal briquette.
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    McDonald's serves 75 hamburgers every second, according to the company’s Operations and Training Manual.
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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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    Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin Group, is dyslexic.
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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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