Refresh for new random facts
1. Arby's was named for brothers Forrest and LeRoy Raffel (the Raffel Brothers, or RB)
2. The S.O.S. brand of steel-wool soap pads, stands for "Save Our Saucepans."
3. Producers of American whiskey originated the term "brand name," because they branded their names on the barrels they shipped out.
4. Steel tycoon Andrew Carnegie would be worth upwards of $200 billion in today's dollars, adjusted for inflation.
5. 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.
6. Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation.
7. A Singer sewing machine was the first consumer product purchased on an installment plan. In 1856, Margaret Hellmuth of New York paid $50 down, with the remaining $100 paid in six monthly installments.
8. To celebrate its one-hundredth anniversary in 1860, tobacco company Lorillard put random $100 bills in packages of its Century brand of tobacco.
9. 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.
10. Fur trader John Jacob Astor would be worth around $100 Billion in today's dollars, adjusted for inflation.
When me and old Abe used to sit by the fire he would tell me the darndest tales about this great land of ours.
