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14 SHOCKING things you never knew about the world's most valuable company

Before the iPhone turned around the company's fortunes in 2007, Apple had a rich and checkered history as one of the first companies to make it big in Silicon Valley.

Steve Jobs holding an Apple

The most valuable company in the world is Apple and the tech giant just turned 40 years old last week Friday.

Before the iPhone turned around the company's fortunes in 2007, Apple had a rich and checkered history as one of the first companies to make it big in Silicon Valley.

In celebration of the company that has given us so much and changed the tech world, here are 17 things you probably never knew about Apple:

  • Apple was founded on April 1 - April Fool's Day - in 1976. If you wondered where the company got its name,
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  • Steve Jobs and
  • Apple's first-ever computer was actually a DIY kit that required people to build their own case. It retailed for very evil $666.66 price.
  • If you bought Apple stock of 100 shares for $22 each at its IPO in 1980, it would be worth about $600,000 today, according to
  • Steve Jobs led the design of the
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  • Apple had a famous "
  • In 1983, Microsoft bailed on making Macintosh software after it revealed its own
  • After Steve Jobs tried to rally Apple's board to remove Apple CEO
  • When Mac sales were continually shrinking in the '80s and '90s, Apple tried making everything (seriously, everything)...

...from digital cameras like the Apple QuickTake...

...to video games consoles like the Apple Pippin

...to a clothing line (seriously, I am not kidding).

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  • In 1997, Steve Jobs went back to Apple as CEO but the company was in such bad shape that his first Macworld keynote speech included the news that Microsoft was investing $150 million in the company. "W
  • By early 1998 though, at yet another Macworld Expo in San Fransisco, Jobs ended his keynote with the first soon-to-be-famous "
  • One of the first things Steve Jobs did when he returned to Apple was ban pets from the Apple campus. In return, he gave employees better food in the café.
  • The "I" in the "iMac" of 1998 stands for "Internet" because it originally took just two steps to connect to the web, in case you didn’t know. That naming scheme would continue through the iPhone and
  • In 2011, Apple went viral after it announced that it had more cash in the bank than the entire US Treasury.

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