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Toyota began as a company making automatic weaving looms.
Yes. Toyota grew out of Toyoda Automatic Loom Works, founded in 1926 by inventor Sakichi Toyoda. His son Kiichiro started an automobile department inside the loom company in 1933.
Toyota began as a company making automatic weaving looms.
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McDonald's makes most of its franchise money from rent, not burgers.
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.
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Nintendo was founded in 1889 to sell handmade playing cards.
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.
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