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1. Before its name was changed in 1924, IBM was known as C-T-R, or Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company.
2. The first Ford cars had engines made by Dodge.
3. Thomas Edison has been granted the most U.S. patents for inventions, 1093.
4. Con Edison is the longest tenured listing on the New York Stock Exchange, first listed in 1824 as the New York Gas Light Company.
5. Arby's was named for brothers Forrest and LeRoy Raffel (the Raffel Brothers, or RB)
6. Starbucks was originally going to be called "Pequod," after the fishing vessel in Herman Melville's novel, Moby-Dick. The founders settled on Starbuck, the first mate on the ship, instead.
7. 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.
8. Fur trader John Jacob Astor would be worth around $100 Billion in today's dollars, adjusted for inflation.
9. The only original Dow Jones Industrial listed company still in existence is General Electric.
10. 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.
When me and old Abe used to sit by the fire he would tell me the darndest tales about this great land of ours.
