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1. Arby's was named for brothers Forrest and LeRoy Raffel (the Raffel Brothers, or RB)
2. Coca-Cola's name is derived from the coca leaves and kola nuts used as flavoring.
3. Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
4. 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.
5. Thomas Edison, inventor of the lightbulb, is said to have been afraid of the dark.
6. Wanamaker's of Philadelphia, was the first U.S. department store to install electric lighting, in 1878.
7. Steel tycoon Andrew Carnegie would be worth upwards of $200 billion in today's dollars, adjusted for inflation.
8. IBM was founded by an ex employee of National Cash Register. The name International Business Machines was his attempt at one-upmanship.
9. The only American to have two cars named after him was Ransom E. Olds- the Oldsmobile and the long-discontinued Reo, which was produced from 1904 to 1936.
10. Secure, high-yielding stocks came to be known as "blue chips," because in poker blue chips are more valuable than red or white.
When me and old Abe used to sit by the fire he would tell me the darndest tales about this great land of ours.
