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1. Thomas Edison has been granted the most U.S. patents for inventions, 1093.
2. Fortune cookies were invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung.
3. Thomas Jefferson invented the first hideaway bed ever patented in the United States.
4. The first words heard over the newly invented telephone were, "Mr. Watson, come here. I want you!" when Alexander Graham Bell spilled acid on his trousers.
5. Steel tycoon Andrew Carnegie would be worth upwards of $200 billion in today's dollars, adjusted for inflation.
6. Dr. Lieven P. Van Neste owns more than 200,000 domain names.
7. Alexander Graham Bell was one of the founders of National Geographic magazine.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. 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.
When me and old Abe used to sit by the fire he would tell me the darndest tales about this great land of ours.
