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1720
The South Sea Company was founded in 1711 partly to restructure British government debt, not simply to trade overseas. Its share boom and collapse in 1720 became the South Sea Bubble.
Rent
Rent is the largest revenue category McDonald's reports from franchised restaurants, ahead of royalties. That does not mean rent is most of all corporate revenue, or that every franchise follows the same property arrangement.
1889
Nintendo traces its origins to Fusajiro Yamauchi making hanafuda playing cards in Kyoto in 1889. Its first home video game machines arrived in 1977, nearly nine decades later.