Wall Street is named after an actual wall built by Dutch settlers.

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Buildings lining Wall Street in Lower Manhattan, New York
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1653

Wall Street is named after an actual wall built by Dutch settlers.

Yes. Wall Street takes its name from a wooden wall that Dutch colonists built across Manhattan in 1653 to protect New Amsterdam. The wall was removed by 1699, but the street along its line kept the name.

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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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1889

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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