The creator of the NIKE Swoosh symbol was paid only $35 for the design.
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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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A full-time cashier at Costco makes about $49,000 annually. The average wage at Costco is nearly 20 dollars an hour and 89% of Costco employees are eligible for benefits.
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The man who created the Thighmaster was once a Bhuddist Monk.
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Yahoo! was originally called 'Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web'.
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In the mid-90’s, Coca Cola recalled an advertising poster due to a hidden sexual image.
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The first McDonald’s drive-thru was opened near a military base in Arizona “to serve soldiers who weren’t permitted to get out of their cars while wearing fatigues.”
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The co-founder and CEO of SnapChat, 23-year-old Evan Spiegel, turned down an offer of $3 billion from Facebook and then a $4 billion bid from Google.
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