- McDonald's restaurant has over 1.5 million employees all over the world.
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- When Kleenex was first introduced to the market in 1924, it was marketed as a make up or cold cream remover.
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- The nickname for a Japanese businessmen is "Salarymen."
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- Every year, Dunkin' Donuts serves an estimated 650 million cups of coffee.
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- NASDAQ stand for, "National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations."
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- In 1970, micro-chip maker Intel purchased a pear orchard to build their corporate headquarters on.
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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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- In Canada, the most productive day of the workweek is Tuesday.
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- In 1949 UNICEF produced the first charity Christmas card. The picture shown on the card was painted by a seven year old girl.
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- In a study that was done by the University of Chicago in 1907, it was concluded that the easiest color to spot is yellow. This is why John Hertz, who is the founder of the Yellow Cab Company picked cabs to be yellow.
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- The United States Postal Service handles over forty percent of the world's mail volume.
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- The Nike swoosh was invented by Caroline Davidson back in 1971. She received $35 for making the swoosh. The first shoe with the swoosh was introduced in 1972.
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- In 1907, for an ad campaign, women were offered a free box of Kellogg's Corn Flakes cereal for winking at the grocer. At the time, the company was called the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company.
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- When the General Mills Trix rabbit made its debut in 1961, the line he said was, "I'm a rabbit, and rabbits are supposed to like carrots. But I hate carrots. I like Trix!"
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- Sugar Bear (the mascot for Golden Crisps cereal) was born in 1963.
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- On average a business document is copied 19 times.
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- In 1923, the first neon sign was introduced in the U.S. Two neon signs were sold to a Packard car dealership for $24,000 which read, "Packard."
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- Approximately 7.5% of all office documents get lost.
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- The YKK that you see on zippers stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha which is the name of the founder of the zipper manufacturing company in Japan.
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- The world's first motel opened in San Luis Obispo, California in 1925. It was initially called "Milestone Motel," and later changed to "Motel Inn."
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- Boeing completed more than 15,000 hours of wind-tunnel testing on the first 747.
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- Nintendo was first establish in 1889 and they started out making special playing cards.
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- The Planters Peanut Company mascot, Mr. Peanut, was created during a contest for schoolchildren in 1916.
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- U.S. Postal Service processes 38 million address changes each year.
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- The largest hotel in the world is the MGM Grand, which has 5,034 rooms and is located in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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