Refresh for new random facts
1. To celebrate its one-hundredth anniversary in 1860, tobacco company Lorillard put random $100 bills in packages of its Century brand of tobacco.
2. The Bank of New York was the first listed company on the New York Stock Exchange, in 1792.
3. J.C. Penney's initials stand for James Cash, founder of the store chain in 1902.
4. Kleenex tissues were marketed as a cold cream remover when first introduced in 1924.
5. Citibank adopted its cable address as its official name. It was originally known as the "City Bank of New York."
6. Thomas Edison, inventor of the lightbulb, is said to have been afraid of the dark.
7. IBM was founded by an ex employee of National Cash Register. The name International Business Machines was his attempt at one-upmanship.
8. Oil magnate John D. Rockefeller would be worth upwards of $300 Billion in today's dollars, adjusted for inflation.
9. Wanamaker's of Philadelphia, was the first U.S. department store to install electric lighting, in 1878.
10. 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.
When me and old Abe used to sit by the fire he would tell me the darndest tales about this great land of ours.
