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Invest your time in a few shocking facts about big businesses

facts you may not know

By Nathan Johnson

Published 9 years ago in Wow

facts you may not know

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Facebook is primarily blue because Mark Zuckerberg suffers from red-green color blindness.

2
Apple’s iPad retina display is actually manufactured by Samsung.

3
Cereal is the second-largest advertiser on television today, behind automobiles.

4
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.

5
“Yahoo” is an acronym for “Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle.”

6
The Volkswagen group owns Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, Audi, Ducati, and Porsche.

7
Steve Jobs is credited as an executive producer on Toy Story.

8
Starbucks’ round tables were created specifically so customers would feel less alone.

9
Everything you say to Siri is sent to Apple, analyzed, and stored.

10
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.

11
Samsung accounts for 20% of Korea’s gross domestic product.

12
Changing the U.S. $1 bill for a $1 coin would save the U.S. $4.4 billion in 30 years.

13
Sixty-four percent of consumers have made a purchase decision based on social media content.

14
The Rubik’s cube is the best-selling product of all time. The iPhone is second.

15
One in eight American workers have been employed by McDonald’s.

16
Dasani water is just purified tap water; it doesn’t come from a natural spring.

17
Smoking near an Apple computer voids the warranty.

18
McDonald’s first menu items were hot dogs, not hamburgers.

19
The “new car smell” is composed of over 50 volatile organic compounds.

20
More than 80 million “mouse ears” have been sold at Walt Disney World to date.

21
Victoria’s Secret is the most followed retailer on Instagram.

22
Burt’s Bees is owned by Clorox.

23
Starbucks spends more on health care insurance for its employees ($300 million) than on coffee beans.

24
Marvel Comics once owned the rights to the word “zombie.”

25
Adding /4 to the end of Facebook’s URL will take you to Mark Zuckerberg’s profile.

26
In 2000, Coca-Cola launched a stealth campaign against water called “Just say no to H2O.”

27
Wal-Mart averages a profit of $1.8 million every hour.

28
More people in the world have mobile phones than toilets.

29
Robert Chesebrough, the inventor of Vaseline, ate a spoonful of the stuff every morning.

30
Taco Bell has proved to be a huge flop in Mexico, as Mexicans were confused by the Americanization of their traditional cuisine.

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