Refresh for new random facts
1. The S.O.S. brand of steel-wool soap pads, stands for "Save Our Saucepans."
2. The refrigerator won first prize at the Paris International Exposition in 1937. It was designed for Sears, Roebuck and Company by visionary engineer Raymond Loewy.
3. The original 12 stocks on the Dow Jones were cotton oil, sugar, tobacco, gas, cattle, electric, gas, lead, coal, leather, utility, and rubber companies.
4. Cadillac was named after the 18th century French explorer Antoine Laumet de la Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, founder of Detroit, Michigan.
5. Con Edison is the longest tenured listing on the New York Stock Exchange, first listed in 1824 as the New York Gas Light Company.
6. Dr. Lieven P. Van Neste owns more than 200,000 domain names.
7. Fortune cookies were invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung.
8. It took about 95 minutes to construct a Model T Ford in 1914.
9. The first Ford cars had engines made by Dodge.
10. Thomas Edison, inventor of the lightbulb, is said to have been afraid of the dark.
When me and old Abe used to sit by the fire he would tell me the darndest tales about this great land of ours.
