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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. The Burpee seed catalogue originally sold real chickens when first introduced by 17-year old Washington Atlee Burpee in 1876.
3. 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.
4. Bank of America was originally called "The Bank of Italy." It was founded by Amadeo Giannini in 1904 to cater to Italian immigrants in San Francisco.
5. Philip Morris, the first owner of the Marlboro brand, died of lung cancer.
6. The sale of antacids increases by 20% the day after the Super Bowl.
7. Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation.
8. Producers of American whiskey originated the term "brand name," because they branded their names on the barrels they shipped out.
9. Con Edison is the longest tenured listing on the New York Stock Exchange, first listed in 1824 as the New York Gas Light Company.
10. The soft drink industry spends more than $100 million a year in stopping thefts involving their vending machines.
When me and old Abe used to sit by the fire he would tell me the darndest tales about this great land of ours.
