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1. Philip Morris, the first owner of the Marlboro brand, died of lung cancer.
2. The only original Dow Jones Industrial listed company still in existence is General Electric.
3. The Mall, the biggest departmental store in Washington, D. C. is 1.4 times bigger than the Vatican City.
4. Dr. Pepper founder Charles Alderton named his drink after the father of a girl he was dating, Dr. Charles Kenneth Pepper.
5. Ajax cleanser was the first company to use animated characters in its television commercials.
6. Starbucks was named after Starbuck, a character (the Quaker first mate on the ship) in Herman Melville's novel, Moby-Dick.
7. Discover Card was introduced by Sears in 1985 under the premise of charging no annual fee.
8. The common phrase "Often a bridesmaid but never a bride" originates from a Listerine advertisement written by Milton Feasley in the 1920's.
9. Wanamaker's of Philadelphia, was the first U.S. department store to install electric lighting, in 1878.
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.
