Refresh for new random facts
1. The first words heard over the newly invented telephone were, "Mr. Watson, come here. I want you!" when Alexander Graham Bell spilled acid on his trousers.
2. Wanamaker's of Philadelphia, was the first U.S. department store to install electric lighting, in 1878.
3. Dr. Pepper founder Charles Alderton named his drink after the father of a girl he was dating, Dr. Charles Kenneth Pepper.
4. The sale of antacids increases by 20% the day after the Super Bowl.
5. Xerox inventor Chestor Carlson, named his product for the dry copying technique that he invented. The Greek root `xer' means dry.
6. 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.
7. Philip Morris, the first owner of the Marlboro brand, died of lung cancer.
8. Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett.
9. Sara Lee is named for the daughter of Chicago bakery owner Charles Lubvin. He first named a cheesecake after his daughter, then in 1951 his company.
10. Thomas Edison has been granted the most U.S. patents for inventions, 1093.
When me and old Abe used to sit by the fire he would tell me the darndest tales about this great land of ours.
