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1. Ben & Jerrys is owned by Unilever.

2. Wal-Mart averages a profit of $1.8 million every hour.


3. Yahoo is an acronym for Yet Another Hierarchical Officious
Oracle.
4. Starbucks round tables were created specifically so customers
would feel less alone.
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5. Apples iPad retina display is actually manufactured by Samsung.


6. Dasani water is just purified tap water; it doesnt come from a
natural spring.
7. One in 10 Europeans are conceived in an Ikea bed.
8. Marvel Comics once owned the rights to the word zombie.
9. The red and white Coca-Cola logo is recognized by 94% of the
worlds population.
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10. The iPad 2 would cost $1,140 if it were made in America.


11. Taco Bell has proved to be a huge flop in Mexico, as Mexicans
were confused by the Americanization of their traditional cuisine.
12. Adding /4 to the end of Facebooks URL will take you to Mark
Zuckerbergs profile.
13. Cereal is the second-largest advertiser on television today,
behind automobiles.
14. Google was originally called BackRub.
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15. Pepsi got its name from the digestive enzyme pepsin.
16. U.S. corporations are reportedly hiding $1.6 trillion in
profits offshore.
17. Amazon.com employees spend two days every two years
working at the customer service desk even the CEO in order to
help all workers understand the customer service process.
18. Speaking of Amazon, it also owns Zappos, ShopBop, Goodreads,
and Audible.com
19. Everything you say to Siri is sent to Apple, analyzed, and stored.
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20. Candy Crush brings in a reported $633,000 a day in revenue.


21. Samsung accounts for 20% of Koreas gross domestic product.
22. Burts Bees is owned by Clorox.
23. The most productive day of the workweek is Tuesday.
24. Warner Music owns the copyrights to Happy Birthday, so its
technically owed royalties every time you sing it to someone on
their big day.
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25. Changing the U.S. $1 bill for a $1 coin would save the U.S. $4.4
billion in 30 years.
26. The new car smell is composed of over 50 volatile
organic compounds.
27. If Bill Gates were a country, hed be the 37th richest on earth.
28. Sixty-four percent of consumers have made a purchase decision
based on social media content.
29. McDonalds first menu items were hot dogs, not hamburgers.
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30. The actor who played the Marlboro man died of lung cancer.
31. More people in the world have mobile phones than toilets.
32. Starbucks spends more on health care insurance for its
employees ($300 million) than on coffee beans.
33. If you have $10 in your pocket and no debts, you are wealthier
than 25% ofAmericans.
34. Facebook is primarily blue because Mark Zuckerberg suffers from
red-green color blindness.
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35. Apple had a third founder, Ronald Wayne, who had a 10% stake
in the company. He left the fledgling company after 12 days and
forfeited his shares for $2,300 (about $9,600 today).
36. Robert Chesebrough, the inventor of Vaseline, ate a spoonful of
the stuff every morning.
37. Seventy percent of small businesses are owned and operated by
a singleperson.

38. Each week nearly one-third of the U.S. population visits


a Walmart.
39. Victorias Secret is the most followed retailer on Instagram.
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40. In iPhone ads, the time is always 9:42 a.m. or 9:41 a.m.,
because Apple events start at 9 a.m. and big product reveals
generally happen 40 minutes into the presentation.
41. The Rubiks cube is the best-selling product of all time. The
iPhone is second.
42. Steve Jobs is credited as an executive producer on Toy Story.
43. One in eight American workers have been employed
by McDonalds.
44. In 2000, Coca-Cola launched a stealth campaign against water
called Just say no to H2O.
45. The Volkswagen group owns Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, Audi,
Ducati, and Porsche.
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46. Smoking near an Apple computer voids the warranty.


47. Twitter CEO Dick Costolo used to work as an improv comedian,
including a stint at the legendary Second City in Chicago.
48. YouTube broadcasts about one-third of the U.S.s
multimedia entertainment.
49. The worlds 100 richest people earned enough money in 2012 to
end global poverty four times over.
50. The average smartphone user checks Facebook 14 times a day.
51. More than 80 million mouse ears have been sold at Walt
Disney World to date.
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52. The Asia Tiger Funds stock symbol is GRR.


53. Gambling generates more revenue than movies, spectator
sports, theme parks, cruise ships, and recorded music combined.
54. You can purchase large sheets of uncut U.S. currency through
the mail.
55. Toms of Maine is owned by Colgate-Palmolive.

56. The Mayfair filter in Instagram generates the most likes.


57. A customer in a wheelchair successfully sued Chipotle in 2010,
claiming its tall ordering counter denied him from seeing the
Chipotle experience.

3. In 1992, Pepsi offered 1 million pesos to anyone


who had a bottle cap with 349 printed on it. Turns
out, half a million bottle caps got the winning
number.

Dubbed as the Number Fever, the promo was offered


by Pepsi-Cola Products Philippines. On May 25, 1992, the
winning numbers (i.e. 349) were finally released.
Thousands claimed the prizes but Pepsi officials revealed
that there was a technical glitch. In the end, the company
spent more than 200 million pesos to pay up to 500, 000
disappointed claimants. The case of the infamous Pepsi
349 fiasco was finally closed in 2006.

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