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1. Conveniently, credit card companies are all headquartered in states with high or no cap on interest rates such as Utah, South Dakota, and Delaware.
2. Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
3. Kleenex tissues were marketed as a cold cream remover when first introduced in 1924.
4. Visa was originally called BankAmericard, a card offered by Bank of America in 1958 in California.
5. David McConnell named his company Avon after the birthplace of William Shakespeare, Stratford on Avon.
6. Arby's was named for brothers Forrest and LeRoy Raffel (the Raffel Brothers, or RB)
7. The Burpee seed catalogue originally sold real chickens when first introduced by 17-year old Washington Atlee Burpee in 1876.
8. 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.
9. The first Ford cars had engines made by Dodge.
10. The soft drink industry spends more than $100 million a year in stopping thefts involving their vending machines.
When me and old Abe used to sit by the fire he would tell me the darndest tales about this great land of ours.
