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• [Corporation fact 1] The CIA admitted to the existence of Area 51 in 2013, eight years after a Freedom of Information Act request was filed.

  Corporation, Placessource

• [Corporation fact 2] The most sophisticated bomb ever encountered by the FBI destroyed Harvey's Wagon Wheel Casino in Lake Tahoe in 1980. The device included 28 toggle switches, a float switch, tilt sensor, other sensors, spring switches, casing screws and joints, and a few surprises.

  Corporation, Disastersource

• [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] In April 2011, two competing algorithms on Amazon.com each kept altering the price that they were selling a book about flies for, based on how much the other was charging. After ten days of price warring, the price of the book had climbed to $23.7 million.

  Books, Corporation, Technologysource

• [Corporation fact 5] Burt Shavitz, the founder of Burt's Bees was forced out of the company he founded and lost millions of dollars. He reluctantly still promotes the company for equity while his former romantic partner made $177 million.

  Corporation, Peoplesource

• [Corporation fact 6] A Florida-based beer company named Saltwater Brewery created fully edible 6-pack rings from brewing byproducts such as wheat and barley. The rings are just as strong as the plastic variety, yet completely digestible and biodegradable.

  Beverages, Corporationsource

• [Corporation fact 7] 39% of film industry professionals illegally download movies.

  Corporation, Moviessource

• [Corporation fact 8] Zeppo Marx owned a company that produced the clamps that held 'Fat Man', the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki.

  Corporation, Weaponssource

• [Corporation fact 9] Konami had a sense of humor dealing with Nintendo piracy. If Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III senses it isn't an authentic copy the game silently reduces the damage the player deals out, doubles the damage they take and makes Shredder immortal.

  Corporation, Gamessource

• [Corporation fact 10] When Robert Taylor inventor of soap-in-a-pump-bottle (Softsoap), he knew larger competitors like Colgate would try to copy his product. In order to ensure that they couldn't copy him, he bought every small bottle hand-pump (100 million bottles) in the United States. This resulted in a year of the market to himself.

  Corporation, Peoplesource

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