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1. Con Edison is the longest tenured listing on the New York Stock Exchange, first listed in 1824 as the New York Gas Light Company.
2. Xerox inventor Chestor Carlson, named his product for the dry copying technique that he invented. The Greek root `xer' means dry.
3. To celebrate its one-hundredth anniversary in 1860, tobacco company Lorillard put random $100 bills in packages of its Century brand of tobacco.
4. All of automaker Henry Ford's cars were black until 1925, when he introduced two new colors, green and maroon.
5. The only original Dow Jones Industrial listed company still in existence is General Electric.
6. Heinz ketchup leaves the bottle at approximately 25 miles per hour.
7. Citibank adopted its cable address as its official name. It was originally known as the "City Bank of New York."
8. Cadillac was named after the 18th century French explorer Antoine Laumet de la Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, founder of Detroit, Michigan.
9. Conveniently, credit card companies are all headquartered in states with high or no cap on interest rates such as Utah, South Dakota, and Delaware.
10. Arby's was named for brothers Forrest and LeRoy Raffel (the Raffel Brothers, or RB)
When me and old Abe used to sit by the fire he would tell me the darndest tales about this great land of ours.
