This time I felt like putting a bunch of small facts from companies into one update, there also might another one though.
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1. Warner Music owns the copyrights to "Happy Birthday",so it's technically owed royalties every time you sing it to someone on their big day.
2. The average smartphone user checks Facebook 14 times a day.
3. More than 80 million "mouse ears" have been sold at Walt Disney World.
4. Yahoo is an acronym for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle."
5. Dasani water is just purified tap water; it doesn't come from a natural spring.
6. Starbucks' round tables were created specifically so customers would feel less alone.
7. Everything you say to Siri is sent to Apple, analyzed, and stored.
8. Wal-Mart averages a profit of $1.8 million every hour.
9. Starbucks uses over 93 million gallons of milk per year, enough to fill 155 Olympic-sized swimming pools
10. Steve Jobs is credited as an executive producer on Toy Story.
11. Marvel Comics once owned the rights to the word "zombie."
12. Coke makes so many different beverages that if you drank one per day, it would take you over 9 years to drink them all.
13. Google was originally called BackRub.
14. Apple's iPad retina display is actually manufactured by Samsung.
15. Adding /4 to the end of Facebook's URL will take you to Mark Zuckerberg's profile
16. Starbucks has added an average of two stores on a daily basis since 1987
17. Each week nearly one-third of the U.S. population visits a Walmart.
18. In 2000, Coca-Cola launched a stealth campaign against water called "Just say no to H2O."
19. You can purchase large sheets of uncut U.S. currency through the mail.
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So, vote and comment which one you think is most fascinating :)
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