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1. Fortune cookies were invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung.
2. Brothers Isaiah and John Wesley Hyatt developed plastic in 1869 while competing for a $10,000 prize offered by a company looking for a substitute for ivory in billiard balls.
3. Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett.
4. Steel tycoon Andrew Carnegie would be worth upwards of $200 billion in today's dollars, adjusted for inflation.
5. Ajax cleanser was the first company to use animated characters in its television commercials.
6. A Tupperware party starts somewhere in the world every 23 seconds.
7. Bubblegum was first introduced in 1906 as "Blibber Blubber" by the Fleer Corporation. In the 1920's the company re-formulated it, marketed it under the name "Dubble Bubble," and an industry was born.
8. It took about 95 minutes to construct a Model T Ford in 1914.
9. Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation.
10. Bill Bowerman, co-founder of Nike, first got the inspiration for creating Nike shoes after staring at a waffle iron.
When me and old Abe used to sit by the fire he would tell me the darndest tales about this great land of ours.
