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1. Fortune cookies were invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung.
2. Dr. Pepper founder Charles Alderton named his drink after the father of a girl he was dating, Dr. Charles Kenneth Pepper.
3. Thomas Jefferson invented the first hideaway bed ever patented in the United States.
4. The sale of antacids increases by 20% the day after the Super Bowl.
5. 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.
6. Bubblegum was first introduced in 1906 as "Blibber Blubber" by the Fleer Corporation. In the 1920's the company re-formulated it, marketed it under the name "Dubble Bubble," and an industry was born.
7. J.C. Penney's initials stand for James Cash, founder of the store chain in 1902.
8. The only American to have two cars named after him was Ransom E. Olds- the Oldsmobile and the long-discontinued Reo, which was produced from 1904 to 1936.
9. Before its name was changed in 1924, IBM was known as C-T-R, or Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company.
10. The U.S. steel industry introduced the 5 Day, 40 hour work week in 1923.