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Here are 10 things you never knew about the world's largest online retailer

Not bad for a company that started out in its owners garage.

PRETTY MUCH THE entire world knows about Amazon.com.

As the world’s largest online retailer, it’s fair to say they’ve been pretty successful.

Not bad for a company that started out life in the garage of its owner Jeff Bezos.

Here’s 10 other facts you probably never knew about the retail giant.

Cadabra.com?
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It's all about the 'A'
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How big?
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Never read it
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Smile
5/10
A little help?
6/10
E-Owned
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Downtime
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Frugal
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Valuable customers
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Oct 10th 2017, 4:32 PM

What are they going to with all Marvel content on Netflix?

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Oct 10th 2017, 6:08 PM

@Kal Ipers: the movies are moving to disney once the contract with netflix is done sometime in 2019 the series like daredevil etc. were parr funded by netflix so they will stay unless disney pay out for them which they might do

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Oct 13th 2017, 1:17 AM

@Kal Ipers: They’re safe probably.

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Oct 10th 2017, 5:32 PM

This is a streaming service I’ll happily get along with Netflix to be honest. All of disney available to me at all times? Not a bad price, considering.

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