Refresh for new random facts
1. Coca-Cola's name is derived from the coca leaves and kola nuts used as flavoring.
2. Contrary to common belief, the name Haagen-Dazs is not European, it is simply two made-up words meant to look European
3. Citibank adopted its cable address as its official name. It was originally known as the "City Bank of New York."
4. The original 12 stocks on the Dow Jones were cotton oil, sugar, tobacco, gas, cattle, electric, gas, lead, coal, leather, utility, and rubber companies.
5. Philip Morris, the first owner of the Marlboro brand, died of lung cancer.
6. Thomas Edison has been granted the most U.S. patents for inventions, 1093.
7. The first major deodorant company in the U.S. was called Odorono; its first ad led hundreds of women to cancel their subscriptions to Ladies Home Journal in 1919.
8. Alexander Graham Bell was one of the founders of National Geographic magazine.
9. Believe it or not, the shopping cart wasn't invented until 1937, by Oklahoma grocery store owner Sylvan Goldman, who had only an 8th grade education. The design was based on a wooden folding chair.
10. Due to a family feud, the Waldorf-Astoria hotel was once two separate hotels built next to each other owned by John Jacob Astor IV and his cousin William Waldorf Astor.
When me and old Abe used to sit by the fire he would tell me the darndest tales about this great land of ours.
