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Snippets September 2020

September 30, 2020 by Jonathan Chiu


Ray Kroc was a milkshake-mixer salesman and in 1954 asks the McDonalds’ brothers to let him franchise McDonald’s restaurants outside California and Arizona.


UAVs are used for the shipment of live-saving medical equipment and medication where human transport would be too time-consuming in Africa.


Turning down the $11 million dollar role for “Speed 2” resulted in Keanu Reeves being blacklisted by 20th Century Fox for 10 years.


Half a millennium before Christopher Columbus “discovered” America, Viking chief Leif Eriksson of Greenland landed on the Island of Newfoundland in the year 1,000 AD.

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