Refresh for new random facts
1. Arby's was named for brothers Forrest and LeRoy Raffel (the Raffel Brothers, or RB)
2. Wanamaker's of Philadelphia, was the first U.S. department store to install electric lighting, in 1878.
3. When Coca-Cola appeared in 1886 it was marketed as an "Esteemed Brain Tonic and Intellectual Beverage."
4. Philip Morris, the first owner of the Marlboro brand, died of lung cancer.
5. Schoolboy Antonio Gentile of Suffolk, Virginia, received $5 for his winning drawing in a Planters Peanut 1916 contest. Mr. Peanut was born.
6. Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos renamed the company to Amazon from the earlier name of Cadabra.com because he saw the potential for a large volume of booksales online, much like the Amazon is the most voluminous river.
7. The soft drink industry spends more than $100 million a year in stopping thefts involving their vending machines.
8. Due to a family feud, the Waldorf-Astoria hotel was once two separate hotels built next to each other owned by John Jacob Astor IV and his cousin William Waldorf Astor.
9. Oil magnate John D. Rockefeller would be worth upwards of $300 Billion in today's dollars, adjusted for inflation.
10. Railroad tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt would be worth around $150 Billion in today's dollars, adjusted for inflation.
When me and old Abe used to sit by the fire he would tell me the darndest tales about this great land of ours.
