Refresh for new random facts
1. It took about 95 minutes to construct a Model T Ford in 1914.
2. The sale of antacids increases by 20% the day after the Super Bowl.
3. With 535, Edwin Land, inventor of the Polaroid camera, is second to only Thomas Edison for U.S. patents awarded for inventions...He trails him by a measly 558.
4. The first major deodorant company in the U.S. was called Odorono; its first ad led hundreds of women to cancel their subscriptions to Ladies Home Journal in 1919.
5. The last mass marketed 12 cylinder car produced in the United States was the 1948 Lincoln Continental.
6. 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.
7. Starbucks was named after Starbuck, a character (the Quaker first mate on the ship) in Herman Melville's novel, Moby-Dick.
8. The Bank of New York was the first listed company on the New York Stock Exchange, in 1792.
9. Contrary to common belief, the name Haagen-Dazs is not European, it is simply two made-up words meant to look European
10. Xerox inventor Chestor Carlson, named his product for the dry copying technique that he invented. The Greek root `xer' means dry.
When me and old Abe used to sit by the fire he would tell me the darndest tales about this great land of ours.
