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1. IBM was founded by an ex employee of National Cash Register. The name International Business Machines was his attempt at one-upmanship.
2. The sale of antacids increases by 20% the day after the Super Bowl.
3. Secure, high-yielding stocks came to be known as "blue chips," because in poker blue chips are more valuable than red or white.
4. The waterproof disposable diaper was first invented in 1951 by Marion Donovan, using only a sewing machine and a shower curtain.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. The only original Dow Jones Industrial listed company still in existence is General Electric.
8. The AA, or Automobile Association, was first started in 1905 to warn motorists about speed traps.
9. A Tupperware party starts somewhere in the world every 23 seconds.
10. Heinz ketchup leaves the bottle at approximately 25 miles per hour.
When me and old Abe used to sit by the fire he would tell me the darndest tales about this great land of ours.
