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1. All of automaker Henry Ford's cars were black until 1925, when he introduced two new colors, green and maroon.
2. Secure, high-yielding stocks came to be known as "blue chips," because in poker blue chips are more valuable than red or white.
3. Visa was originally called BankAmericard, a card offered by Bank of America in 1958 in California.
4. Starbucks was named after Starbuck, a character (the Quaker first mate on the ship) in Herman Melville's novel, Moby-Dick.
5. Dr. Pepper founder Charles Alderton named his drink after the father of a girl he was dating, Dr. Charles Kenneth Pepper.
6. Believe it or not, the shopping cart wasn't invented until 1937, by Oklahoma grocery store owner Sylvan Goldman, who had only an 8th grade education. The design was based on a wooden folding chair.
7. Contrary to common belief, the name Haagen-Dazs is not European, it is simply two made-up words meant to look European
8. Ajax cleanser was the first company to use animated characters in its television commercials.
9. 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.
10. The Bank of New York was the first listed company on the New York Stock Exchange, in 1792.
When me and old Abe used to sit by the fire he would tell me the darndest tales about this great land of ours.
