Refresh for new random facts
1. Steel tycoon Andrew Carnegie would be worth upwards of $200 billion in today's dollars, adjusted for inflation.
2. Thomas Edison has been granted the most U.S. patents for inventions, 1093.
3. Sara Lee is named for the daughter of Chicago bakery owner Charles Lubvin. He first named a cheesecake after his daughter, then in 1951 his company.
4. The common phrase "Often a bridesmaid but never a bride" originates from a Listerine advertisement written by Milton Feasley in the 1920's.
5. Discover Card was introduced by Sears in 1985 under the premise of charging no annual fee.
6. The waterproof disposable diaper was first invented in 1951 by Marion Donovan, using only a sewing machine and a shower curtain.
7. A Tupperware party starts somewhere in the world every 23 seconds.
8. Alexander Graham Bell was one of the founders of National Geographic magazine.
9. One of the twelve original companies listed on the Dow Jones Industrial Average in 1896 was Distilling & Cattle Feeding Whiskey Trust...believe it or not.
10. 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.
When me and old Abe used to sit by the fire he would tell me the darndest tales about this great land of ours.
