Refresh for new random facts
1. Contrary to common belief, the name Haagen-Dazs is not European, it is simply two made-up words meant to look European
2. Ajax cleanser was the first company to use animated characters in its television commercials.
3. 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.
4. Arby's was named for brothers Forrest and LeRoy Raffel (the Raffel Brothers, or RB)
5. Due to a family feud, the Waldorf-Astoria hotel was once two separate hotels built next to each other owned by John Jacob Astor IV and his cousin William Waldorf Astor.
6. IBM was founded by an ex employee of National Cash Register. The name International Business Machines was his attempt at one-upmanship.
7. Frozen food entrepreneur Clarence Birdseye also invented a recoilless harpoon for whaling and a fast process for converting sugar cane waste into paper pulp.
8. The Bank of New York was the first listed company on the New York Stock Exchange, in 1792.
9. The sale of antacids increases by 20% the day after the Super Bowl.
10. Before its name was changed in 1924, IBM was known as C-T-R, or Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company.
When me and old Abe used to sit by the fire he would tell me the darndest tales about this great land of ours.
