Refresh for new random facts
1. Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
2. Nathaniel C. Wyeth, son of artist N.C. Wyeth, brother of artists Andrew, Carolyn and Henriette Wyeth, developed the plastic soda bottle while working as an engineer for the DuPont Company.
3. Bill Bowerman, co-founder of Nike, first got the inspiration for creating Nike shoes after staring at a waffle iron.
4. Contrary to common belief, the name Haagen-Dazs is not European, it is simply two made-up words meant to look European
5. With 535, Edwin Land, inventor of the Polaroid camera, is second to only Thomas Edison for U.S. patents awarded for inventions...He trails him by a measly 558.
6. The last mass marketed 12 cylinder car produced in the United States was the 1948 Lincoln Continental.
7. 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.
8. The AA, or Automobile Association, was first started in 1905 to warn motorists about speed traps.
9. Railroad tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt would be worth around $150 Billion in today's dollars, adjusted for inflation.
10. Citibank adopted its cable address as its official name. It was originally known as the "City Bank of New York."
When me and old Abe used to sit by the fire he would tell me the darndest tales about this great land of ours.
