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1. Bill Bowerman, co-founder of Nike, first got the inspiration for creating Nike shoes after staring at a waffle iron.
2. A Tupperware party starts somewhere in the world every 23 seconds.
3. Conveniently, credit card companies are all headquartered in states with high or no cap on interest rates such as Utah, South Dakota, and Delaware.
4. The top three most valuable brands in the world in order of their value are Marlboro, Coca Cola and Budweiser.
5. Starbucks was named after Starbuck, a character (the Quaker first mate on the ship) in Herman Melville's novel, Moby-Dick.
6. 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.
7. The AA, or Automobile Association, was first started in 1905 to warn motorists about speed traps.
8. Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett.
9. Con Edison is the longest tenured listing on the New York Stock Exchange, first listed in 1824 as the New York Gas Light Company.
10. Arby's was named for brothers Forrest and LeRoy Raffel (the Raffel Brothers, or RB)
When me and old Abe used to sit by the fire he would tell me the darndest tales about this great land of ours.
