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• [Corporation fact 1] Hugh Jackman started his own coffee brand and foundation called “Laughing Man” after meeting a struggling coffee farmer in Ethiopia. His goal was to provide a marketplace for farmers in developing countries to sell their goods for a fair price. Jackman donates 100% of profits.

  Actors, Corporationsource

• [Corporation fact 2] Snake Oil was a real product sold by the Clark Stanley company, and in 1917 the U.S. Govt. had a bottle of it tested, but discovered that it contained inert ingredients and no actual oils extracted from snakes. The government sued and won damages of $20.

  Animals, Corporation, Governmentsource

• [Corporation fact 3] Blue Smarties were not removed from circulation for making kids hyper, but instead because when Nestle was replacing artificial dyes with natural ones, no natural dye could be found which would make smarties blue

  Corporation, Foodsource

• [Corporation fact 4] Google has found GPA's and test scores to be "worthless as criteria for hiring". They have teams where 14% of their employees haven't gone to college.

  Corporation, Peoplesource

• [Corporation fact 5] 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, Sportssource

• [Corporation fact 6] Dr. William McGuire, the former CEO of UnitedHealth Group, resigned amid a stock-option scandal, and as a consequence, he was given a severance package worth $1.1 billion in 2006, which was 3 times larger than the previous record set by former Exxon CEO Lee Raymond just earlier that year

  Corporation, Scamsource

• [Corporation fact 7] The graphics company Nvidia is named after the Latin 'Invidia', which means 'envy'. This is also the reason why they use the color green, as in "green with envy".

  Corporationsource

• [Corporation fact 8] The Library of Congress in the US has the unadulterated 35mm print of “Star Wars” submitted to them in 1977 for copyright, and anyone can watch it by prior appointment.

  Corporation, Moviessource

• [Corporation fact 9] Mark Zuckerberg, the Founder/Chairman/CEO of Facebook called his first few thousand users as "dumb f****" for trusting him with their personal data.

  Corporation, Media, Peoplesource

• [Corporation fact 10] The Duracell Bunny promotes battery everywhere in the world, except in USA and Canada where Energizer holds the trademarks to a “battery bunny.”

  Corporation, Placessource

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