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1. Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation.
2. Diners Club issued its first card to only two hundred customers and it could only be used at twenty seven restaurants in New York City.
3. The refrigerator won first prize at the Paris International Exposition in 1937. It was designed for Sears, Roebuck and Company by visionary engineer Raymond Loewy.
4. Ajax cleanser was the first company to use animated characters in its television commercials.
5. Con Edison is the longest tenured listing on the New York Stock Exchange, first listed in 1824 as the New York Gas Light Company.
6. Schoolboy Antonio Gentile of Suffolk, Virginia, received $5 for his winning drawing in a Planters Peanut 1916 contest. Mr. Peanut was born.
7. IBM was founded by an ex employee of National Cash Register. The name International Business Machines was his attempt at one-upmanship.
8. Thomas Jefferson invented the first hideaway bed ever patented in the United States.
9. Frozen food entrepreneur Clarence Birdseye also invented a recoilless harpoon for whaling and a fast process for converting sugar cane waste into paper pulp.
10. Arby's was named for brothers Forrest and LeRoy Raffel (the Raffel Brothers, or RB)
When me and old Abe used to sit by the fire he would tell me the darndest tales about this great land of ours.
