Refresh for new random facts
1. Steel tycoon Andrew Carnegie would be worth upwards of $200 billion in today's dollars, adjusted for inflation.
2. Secure, high-yielding stocks came to be known as "blue chips," because in poker blue chips are more valuable than red or white.
3. Coca-Cola's name is derived from the coca leaves and kola nuts used as flavoring.
4. Diners Club issued its first card to only two hundred customers and it could only be used at twenty seven restaurants in New York City.
5. One of the twelve original companies listed on the Dow Jones Industrial Average in 1896 was Distilling & Cattle Feeding Whiskey Trust...believe it or not.
6. Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
7. Discover Card was introduced by Sears in 1985 under the premise of charging no annual fee.
8. Car magnate Henry Ford would be worth around $200 Billion in today's dollars, adjusted for inflation.
9. American Express started off as a shipping company in 1850, shipping financial products across the United States; their first credit card wasn't issued until 1958.
10. When Coca-Cola appeared in 1886 it was marketed as an "Esteemed Brain Tonic and Intellectual Beverage."
When me and old Abe used to sit by the fire he would tell me the darndest tales about this great land of ours.
