Top Business trivia
Title | Teaser | Author | Views | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hotel offers guests a "Free Hotel Room" | In 1985, a Denver hotel published an ad offering guests a "Free Hotel Room" in large type. T | root | 168 | |
| 19th Century whale oil industry & the economics of oil | Rocky Mountain Institute CEO Amory Lovins: "In 1850, the fifth-biggest industry in our country was whaling, and most... | root | 121 | |
| Bill Gates and Paul Allen sell Traf-O-Data | In late 1971, Bill Gates and Paul Allen formed a company called Traf-O-D | Anonymous | 68 | |
| Toyota employee dies of overwork - lawsuit | On November 30th, 2007, Japan's Nagoya District Court accepted Hiroko Uchino's claim that her husband, Kenichi, a... | root | 59 | |
| Chinese worker sues for wrongful dismissal | In 2007, a Chinese woman sued her former employer after being fired for contradicting her boss three times (a... | root | 57 | |
| Burma-Shave advertising a free trip to Mars | The Burma-Shave corporation once ran a special promotion, advertised on roadside billboards: "Free, free, a trip to Mars for... | root | 56 | |
| Effect of cell phones on per capita GDP growth | The idea that mobile phones bring economic benefits is now widely accepted. In places with bad roads, few trains and... | root | 54 | |
| Feature creep & product design | Technology is supposed to make our lives easier, allowing us to do things more quickly and efficiently. But too often... | root | 47 | |
| Trivia about Birds, Feces and Nauru | Guano (bird droppings) is chief export of Nauru, an island nation in the Western Pacific. | Anonymous | 45 | |
| Explaining the popularity of the Clover coffee machine | Near the hard-working espresso machine at Ritual Coffee Roasters, a café in San Francisco, sits a stainless-steel box... | root | 43 |
