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TIL in 1960 Tom and James Monaghan bought DomiNick's, a small pizzeria, for $1400. Not wanting to quit his full-time job as a postman, James traded his half of the business to Tom for the VW Beetle they used for deliveries. Tom would later buy two more pizzerias and found Domino's Pizza.

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