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1. Conveniently, credit card companies are all headquartered in states with high or no cap on interest rates such as Utah, South Dakota, and Delaware.
2. Coca-Cola's name is derived from the coca leaves and kola nuts used as flavoring.
3. Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos renamed the company to Amazon from the earlier name of Cadabra.com because he saw the potential for a large volume of booksales online, much like the Amazon is the most voluminous river.
4. Contrary to common belief, the name Haagen-Dazs is not European, it is simply two made-up words meant to look European
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. J.C. Penney's initials stand for James Cash, founder of the store chain in 1902.
8. The top three most valuable brands in the world in order of their value are Marlboro, Coca Cola and Budweiser.
9. Starbucks was named after Starbuck, a character (the Quaker first mate on the ship) in Herman Melville's novel, Moby-Dick.
10. Dr. Lieven P. Van Neste owns more than 200,000 domain names.
When me and old Abe used to sit by the fire he would tell me the darndest tales about this great land of ours.
