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1. The last mass marketed 12 cylinder car produced in the United States was the 1948 Lincoln Continental.
2. Philip Morris, the first owner of the Marlboro brand, died of lung cancer.
3. The first vending machines were installed on New York City elevated subway platforms in 1888 and dispensed Tutti-Fruiti gum.
4. Thomas Edison, inventor of the lightbulb, is said to have been afraid of the dark.
5. The only original Dow Jones Industrial listed company still in existence is General Electric.
6. Believe it or not, the shopping cart wasn't invented until 1937, by Oklahoma grocery store owner Sylvan Goldman, who had only an 8th grade education. The design was based on a wooden folding chair.
7. Oil magnate John D. Rockefeller would be worth upwards of $300 Billion in today's dollars, adjusted for inflation.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. Wanamaker's of Philadelphia, was the first U.S. department store to install electric lighting, in 1878.
When me and old Abe used to sit by the fire he would tell me the darndest tales about this great land of ours.
