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Discover what crazy things are done at pizza photo shoots, and why Domino’s has made a promise about how they photograph pizza from this day forward.

It would be the only way these low-cost, low-consumption, small-footprint little cars would have success in the Land of the Free, the pickups, the minivans, and the Hummers.

Apple recently became the largest company in the tech universe, and, after ExxonMobil, the second largest in the nation. For months, its market capitalization had hovered just under that of Microsoft — the giant that buried Apple and then saved it from almost certain demise with a $150 million investment in 1997. Now Microsoft gets in line with Google, Amazon, HTC, Nokia, and HP as companies that Apple seems bent on sidelining.

Rapper Snoop Dogg tried to rent the entire Principality of Liechtenstein — all 62 square miles of it — in order to record a music video:

Snoop was reportedly trying to shoot a music video in the tiny Western European country, but was rebuffed … and not because trying to rent an entire country is a crazy thing to do. Says Liechtenstein property agent Karl Schwaerzler, “We’ve had requests for places and villages but never one to hire the whole country before. It would have been possible, but Snoop Dogg’s management did not give us enough time.”

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It’s somewhat surprising to learn that the world was first introduced to money-saving discount coupons way back in the mid-1890s, courtesy of – rather unsurprisingly – Coca-Cola, then a young company who at the time only had a few products to advertise. Following a brainstorm by the company’s head, Asa Griggs Candler, coupons similar to those pictured above were both direct-mailed to potential customers and placed in magazines in an effort to tempt the masses, and the plan worked.

Very quickly profits soared, other companies latched on to the idea, and the rest is history. Today, discount coupons are still going strong, but, as is the case with so many other areas of business, such offers are now a roaring trade online in the form of promotional codes.