Refresh for new random facts
1. Alexander Graham Bell was one of the founders of National Geographic magazine.
2. 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.
3. The AA, or Automobile Association, was first started in 1905 to warn motorists about speed traps.
4. The last mass marketed 12 cylinder car produced in the United States was the 1948 Lincoln Continental.
5. Conveniently, credit card companies are all headquartered in states with high or no cap on interest rates such as Utah, South Dakota, and Delaware.
6. IBM was founded by an ex employee of National Cash Register. The name International Business Machines was his attempt at one-upmanship.
7. Dr. Pepper founder Charles Alderton named his drink after the father of a girl he was dating, Dr. Charles Kenneth Pepper.
8. Before Michigan, Indiana was the car capital of America. The last Indiana based company, Studebaker, shut down its operations in 1963.
9. Due to a family feud, the Waldorf-Astoria hotel was once two separate hotels built next to each other owned by John Jacob Astor IV and his cousin William Waldorf Astor.
10. Samuel F.B. Morse, renowned inventor of the telegraph and Morse Code, twice ran for mayor of New York City...and lost both times.
When me and old Abe used to sit by the fire he would tell me the darndest tales about this great land of ours.
