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1. The Burpee seed catalogue originally sold real chickens when first introduced by 17-year old Washington Atlee Burpee in 1876.
2. Heinz ketchup leaves the bottle at approximately 25 miles per hour.
3. The word Yahoo comes from Jonathan Swift's 1726 book Gulliver's Travels. The Yahoos were vile, repulsive, and materialistic creatures, an allegory for British society that Swift witnessed at the time.
4. Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation.
5. Pepsi derives its name from the treatment of "dyspepsia", an intestinal ailment.
6. Con Edison is the longest tenured listing on the New York Stock Exchange, first listed in 1824 as the New York Gas Light Company.
7. The Mall, the biggest departmental store in Washington, D. C. is 1.4 times bigger than the Vatican City.
8. 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.
9. Steel tycoon Andrew Carnegie would be worth upwards of $200 billion in today's dollars, adjusted for inflation.
10. Conveniently, credit card companies are all headquartered in states with high or no cap on interest rates such as Utah, South Dakota, and Delaware.
When me and old Abe used to sit by the fire he would tell me the darndest tales about this great land of ours.
