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1. Dr. Pepper founder Charles Alderton named his drink after the father of a girl he was dating, Dr. Charles Kenneth Pepper.
2. Conveniently, credit card companies are all headquartered in states with high or no cap on interest rates such as Utah, South Dakota, and Delaware.
3. To celebrate its one-hundredth anniversary in 1860, tobacco company Lorillard put random $100 bills in packages of its Century brand of tobacco.
4. Thomas Jefferson invented the first hideaway bed ever patented in the United States.
5. 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.
6. The Bank of New York was the first listed company on the New York Stock Exchange, in 1792.
7. The oldest business known to be currently operating in the United States is the cymbal company Zildjian, founded in Constantinople (now Istanbul) in 1623.
8. Discover Card was introduced by Sears in 1985 under the premise of charging no annual fee.
9. 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.
10. Bubblegum was first introduced in 1906 as "Blibber Blubber" by the Fleer Corporation. In the 1920's the company re-formulated it, marketed it under the name "Dubble Bubble," and an industry was born.