Blockbuster laughed at a Netflix partnership proposal in 2000.
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Microsoft made $16,005 in revenue in its first year of operation.
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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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The upside-down ketchup bottle earned its inventor 13 million dollars.
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There is no tipping at restaurants in Japan.
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Warner Chappel Music owns the copyright to the song 'Happy Birthday'. They make over $1 million in royalties every year from the commercial use of the song.
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