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1. In 1987, American Airlines decided to omit one olive from each salad course in the first class. As a result, they saved $40,000.
2. The waterproof disposable diaper was first invented in 1951 by Marion Donovan, using only a sewing machine and a shower curtain.
3. Railroad tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt would be worth around $150 Billion in today's dollars, adjusted for inflation.
4. Before its name was changed in 1924, IBM was known as C-T-R, or Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company.
5. Fortune cookies were invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung.
6. The only original Dow Jones Industrial listed company still in existence is General Electric.
7. Ajax cleanser was the first company to use animated characters in its television commercials.
8. To celebrate its one-hundredth anniversary in 1860, tobacco company Lorillard put random $100 bills in packages of its Century brand of tobacco.
9. It took about 95 minutes to construct a Model T Ford in 1914.
10. The last mass marketed 12 cylinder car produced in the United States was the 1948 Lincoln Continental.
When me and old Abe used to sit by the fire he would tell me the darndest tales about this great land of ours.
