The creator of the NIKE Swoosh symbol was paid only $35 for the design.
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Carlos Vasquez, a dry cleaner in New York, has a sign outside his shop that reads: If you are unemployed and need an outfit clean for an interview, we will clean it for free.
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The first female self-made millionaire in America was a black woman.
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Oil tycoon, John D. Rockefeller, was the world's first billionaire.
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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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Apple co-founder Ronald Wayne sold his 10% share in 1976 for $800. Today, it’s worth over $58 billion.
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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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7-11 sells 10,000 pots of coffee an hour, every hour, every day.
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