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10 interesting business facts
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- 1. Steve Jobs’ annual salary was $1, just enough to keep company health benefits. Ran on: 10-21-2011 Steve Jobs regretted his decision to refuse a potentially life-saving operation, an author says.
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- 2. The most production day of the working week is Tuesday.
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- 3. The creator of the Nike Swoosh symbol was paid only $35 for the design.
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- 4. Henry ford produced the model T only in black because the black paint available at the time was the fastest to dry.
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- 5. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class.
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- 6. Each year approximately half of billions dollars is spent on bubble gum by the kids in North America.
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- 7. Every day, U.S. business use enough paper to circle the Earth over 20 times.
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- 8. It takes about 63,000 trees to make the newsprint for the average Sunday edition of The New York Times.
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- 9. Yahoo! was originally called ‘Jerry’s Guide to the World’
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- 10. 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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