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1. Frozen food entrepreneur Clarence Birdseye also invented a recoilless harpoon for whaling and a fast process for converting sugar cane waste into paper pulp.
2. Thomas Edison has been granted the most U.S. patents for inventions, 1093.
3. Conveniently, credit card companies are all headquartered in states with high or no cap on interest rates such as Utah, South Dakota, and Delaware.
4. To celebrate its one-hundredth anniversary in 1860, tobacco company Lorillard put random $100 bills in packages of its Century brand of tobacco.
5. Coca-Cola's name is derived from the coca leaves and kola nuts used as flavoring.
6. Thomas Jefferson invented the first hideaway bed ever patented in the United States.
7. The Burpee seed catalogue originally sold real chickens when first introduced by 17-year old Washington Atlee Burpee in 1876.
8. Sara Lee is named for the daughter of Chicago bakery owner Charles Lubvin. He first named a cheesecake after his daughter, then in 1951 his company.
9. The last mass marketed 12 cylinder car produced in the United States was the 1948 Lincoln Continental.
10. Believe it or not, the shopping cart wasn't invented until 1937, by Oklahoma grocery store owner Sylvan Goldman, who had only an 8th grade education. The design was based on a wooden folding chair.
When me and old Abe used to sit by the fire he would tell me the darndest tales about this great land of ours.
