Refresh for new random facts
1. Thomas Jefferson invented the first hideaway bed ever patented in the United States.
2. 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.
3. The Mall, the biggest departmental store in Washington, D. C. is 1.4 times bigger than the Vatican City.
4. Contrary to common belief, the name Haagen-Dazs is not European, it is simply two made-up words meant to look European
5. Cadillac was named after the 18th century French explorer Antoine Laumet de la Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, founder of Detroit, Michigan.
6. In 1987, American Airlines decided to omit one olive from each salad course in the first class. As a result, they saved $40,000.
7. The soft drink industry spends more than $100 million a year in stopping thefts involving their vending machines.
8. Starbucks was originally going to be called "Pequod," after the fishing vessel in Herman Melville's novel, Moby-Dick. The founders settled on Starbuck, the first mate on the ship, instead.
9. Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
10. Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett.
When me and old Abe used to sit by the fire he would tell me the darndest tales about this great land of ours.
