Business Amazing Facts - Page 2

Bizarre Fact #51:
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In October 1986, Pepsi paid close to $840 million to Nabisco for the Kentucky Fried Chicken empire.

Bizarre Fact #52:
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In the 1930's, Pepsi-Cola had an advertising campaign starring two cartoon cops called "Pepsi & Pete."

Bizarre Fact #53:
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In the late 1650's the first known check was written in Europe.

Bizarre Fact #54:
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In the late 1650's the first known check was written in Europe.

Bizarre Fact #55:
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In the late 1960's, Mountain Dew bottles featured a hillbilly on them. These are now collector items worth five to ten dollars.

Bizarre Fact #56:
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In the U.S., 75% of the pencils sold are painted yellow.

Bizarre Fact #57:
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It cost the soft drink industry $100 million a year for thefts committed involving vending machines.

Bizarre Fact #58:
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It takes about 63,000 trees to make the newsprint for the average Sunday edition of The New York Times.

Bizarre Fact #59:
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It would take approximately twenty-four trees that are on average six to eight inches in diameter to produce one ton of newsprint for the Sunday edition of the New York Times.

Bizarre Fact #60:
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Less than 1% of the women in the world will ever be able to wear a diamond that is the size of a carat or more.

Bizarre Fact #61:
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Marlboro was the first cigarette company to market a cigarette that had a red filter called "beauty tip." This was done to hide the lipstick marks left on the filter from women smokers.

Bizarre Fact #62:
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McDonald's restaurant has over 1.5 million employees all over the world.

Bizarre Fact #63:
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Mexico City boasts the world's largest taxi fleet with over sixty thousand taxis running every day.

Bizarre Fact #64:
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Microsoft made $16,005 in revenue in its first year of operation.

Bizarre Fact #65:
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MS-DOS was originally calle QDOS and was bought of the author by Microsoft for a small fee. The rest is history.

Bizarre Fact #66:
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NASDAQ stand for, "National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations."

Bizarre Fact #67:
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Nintendo was first establish in 1889 and they started out making special playing cards.

Bizarre Fact #68:
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Of all the restaurants that are opened, 90% of them fail in the first year. Of the remaining ones that survive, 90% of those fail in the second year.

Bizarre Fact #69:
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Oil tycoon, John D. Rockefeller, was the world's first billionaire.

Bizarre Fact #70:
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On a bottle of brandy VSOP stand for "Very Special Old Pale."

Bizarre Fact #71:
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On average a business document is copied 19 times.

Bizarre Fact #72:
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On February 10, 1964 the first self-adhesive stamps were issued.

Bizarre Fact #73:
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On October 15, 1794, the first silver dollar coins were released to be circulated to the public.

Bizarre Fact #74:
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One barrel of petroleum holds 42 gallons.

Bizarre Fact #75:
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Over one million Pet Rocks were sold in 1975, makine Gary Dahl, of Los Gatos, California, a millionaire. He got the idea while joking with friends about his pet that was easy to take care of, which was a rock.

Bizarre Fact #76:
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Painting a house yellow or having a yellow trim helps in selling a house faster.

Bizarre Fact #77:
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Ray Kroc bought McDonalds for $2.7 million in 1961 from the McDonald brothers.

Bizarre Fact #78:
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Retail sales for soft drinks in the United States in 2001 were more than sixty billion dollars.

Bizarre Fact #79:
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Sales of antacids increase by as much as 20% the day after the Superbowl.

Bizarre Fact #80:
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Sugar Bear (the mascot for Golden Crisps cereal) was born in 1963.

Bizarre Fact #81:
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The American Automobile association was formed in 1905 for the sole purpose of warning motorists of police speed traps.

Bizarre Fact #82:
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The average number of pillowcases washed a day at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas is 15,000.

Bizarre Fact #83:
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The average office document gets copied 19 times.

Bizarre Fact #84:
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The company "Sony" was originally called "Totsuken." They felt the name "Sony" would be easier to pronounce. The name was invented by a cross between the name "sonus" and "sonny." The name sound and sonic are derived. Sonny was used to represent a young man or boy, which would show a energetic young company.

Bizarre Fact #85:
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The company Chanel claims that every 30 seconds, somewhere in the world, a bottle of Chanel No 5 is sold.

Bizarre Fact #86:
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The country of Andorra has a zero percent unemployment rate.

Bizarre Fact #87:
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The famous jewelry store Tiffany & Co. was established on September 18, 1837 in New York City. The amount of sales that were made the first day were $4.98.

Bizarre Fact #88:
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The first and longest lasting cartoon characters to promote a Kellogg's product are Snap! Crackle! Pop! from Rice Krispies cereal.

Bizarre Fact #89:
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The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com.

Bizarre Fact #90:
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The first email was sent out by Ray Tomlinson in 1971.

Bizarre Fact #91:
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The first product that Sony came out with was the rice cooker.

Bizarre Fact #92:
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The first product to ever be scanned with a bar code was Wrigley's gum on June 26, 1974.

Bizarre Fact #93:
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The IRS employees tax manual has instructions for collecting taxes after a nuclear war.

Bizarre Fact #94:
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The largest bill U.S. bill made is for $100,000.

Bizarre Fact #95:
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The largest cereal company in the world is Quaker Oats, located in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA.

Bizarre Fact #96:
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The largest employer in the world is the Indian railway system in India, employing over 1.6 million people.

Bizarre Fact #97:
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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.

Bizarre Fact #98:
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The most dangerous job in the United States is that of a fisherman, followed by logging and then an airline pilot.

Bizarre Fact #99:
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The name "Adidas" was invented from the creator of the brand named Adolf 'Adi' Dassler.

Bizarre Fact #100:
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The name Reebok was named after the African Gazelle.