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• [Corporation fact 1]  Japanese people traditionally eat at KFC restaurants for Christmas dinner. This tradition is so popular that customers must place their Christmas orders 2 months in advance. This all started with the Japanese marketing campaign in 1974 called “Kurisumasu ni wa kentakkii!” or Kentucky for Christmas! Now over 3.6 million Japanese families eat KFC chicken on Christmas every year.

  Corporation, Food source

• [Corporation fact 2]  After Nike released Air Jordan sneakers in 1985, the NBA banned Michael Jordan from wearing them because its colors didn’t match his team’s uniform. Nike supposedly paid the fine of $5000 the NBA charged Jordan each game so he would continue wearing them.

  Corporation, People, Sports source

• [Corporation fact 3]  The Windows XP wallpaper (Bliss) was so expensive that FedEx refused to ship it and was hand-delivered to Microsoft by the photographer Charles O’Rear.

  Corporation, People source

• [Corporation fact 4]  There is a company named OpenBiome that will pay $13,000 per year if you sell them your poop.

  Corporation, People source

• [Corporation fact 5]  Tsuyoshi Kikukawa, the CEO of Olympus was fired when he discovered that $1.6 billion of the company's money had been paid to the yakuza gang.

  Corporation, Finance source

• [Corporation fact 6]  On 1st April 1996, Taco Bell spent $300,000 on ads claiming that they purchased the Liberty Bell and named it Taco Liberty Bell, and achieved $25 million in free publicity. The White House Press Secretary got on the joke, saying the Lincoln Memorial was turned by Ford into Lincoln-Mercury Memorial.

  Corporation, Misc source

• [Corporation fact 7]  The 7-11 franchise in Japan was eventually able to buy out the entire brand due to its huge success in the country.

  Corporation, Countries source

• [Corporation fact 8]  The Simpsons in its early seasons was controversial, with parents and conservatives criticizing Bart Simpson as a poor role model for American children. First Lady Barbara Bush thought it was "the dumbest thing [she] had ever seen", in which Marge Simpson wrote a letter to her in response.

  Corporation, Disaster source

• [Corporation fact 9]  In 1955, Quaker Oats gave away free land deeds as part of a cereal promotion. Participants could mail in their cereal box to redeem a plot of land which was just 1-inch x 1-inch sized in a gold-rush region of Canada.

  Corporation, Countries, Food source

• [Corporation fact 10]  In 2011, a man killed his wife inside the Wal-Mart she was working at. Rather than close the store, they chose to just rope off the gore-splattered area while police investigated.

  Corporation, Death source

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