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1. 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.
2. Frozen food entrepreneur Clarence Birdseye also invented a recoilless harpoon for whaling and a fast process for converting sugar cane waste into paper pulp.
3. Fur trader John Jacob Astor would be worth around $100 Billion in today's dollars, adjusted for inflation.
4. The last mass marketed 12 cylinder car produced in the United States was the 1948 Lincoln Continental.
5. Schoolboy Antonio Gentile of Suffolk, Virginia, received $5 for his winning drawing in a Planters Peanut 1916 contest. Mr. Peanut was born.
6. Brothers Isaiah and John Wesley Hyatt developed plastic in 1869 while competing for a $10,000 prize offered by a company looking for a substitute for ivory in billiard balls.
7. Thomas Edison has been granted the most U.S. patents for inventions, 1093.
8. The sale of antacids increases by 20% the day after the Super Bowl.
9. Kleenex tissues were marketed as a cold cream remover when first introduced in 1924.
10. Heinz ketchup leaves the bottle at approximately 25 miles per hour.
When me and old Abe used to sit by the fire he would tell me the darndest tales about this great land of ours.
