Business Amazing Facts - Page 3

Bizarre Fact #101:
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The nickname for a Japanese businessmen is "Salarymen."

Bizarre Fact #102:
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The Nike swoosh was invented by Caroline Davidson back in 1971. She received $35 for making the swoosh. The first shoe with the swoosh was introduced in 1972.

Bizarre Fact #103:
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The Planters Peanut Company mascot, Mr. Peanut, was created during a contest for schoolchildren in 1916.

Bizarre Fact #104:
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The reason the Animal Crackers box is designed with a string handle is because when the popular circus theme was introduced in 1902 they thought it would also be a good idea to package them with a string as a Christmas novelty so they could be hung from Christmas trees.

Bizarre Fact #105:
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The revenue that is generated from gambling is more than the revenue that comes from movies, cruise ships, recorded music, theme parks, and spectator sports combined.

Bizarre Fact #106:
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The search engine Google got its name from the word "googol," which refers to the number one with a hundred zeros after it.

Bizarre Fact #107:
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The state of California has more 7-Eleven stores than any other state. There are approximately 1,200 stores.

Bizarre Fact #108:
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The story of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was written in 1939 for a store promotion by an advertising employee of the department store Montgomery Ward.

Bizarre Fact #109:
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The total mileage driven by all U-Haul trucks in a year is enough to move a person from the Earth to the moon five times a day for an entire year.

Bizarre Fact #110:
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The United States and Canada are the world's largest producers of paper and paper products.

Bizarre Fact #111:
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The United States Postal Service handles over forty percent of the world's mail volume.

Bizarre Fact #112:
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The word "Oral-B" is a combination of oral hygiene and the letter B, which stands for the word "better."

Bizarre Fact #113:
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The word Nike comes from Greek Mythology. Nike is the goddess of victory and was often depicted as a small winged figure whom the goddess Athene carried.

Bizarre Fact #114:
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The world's first motel opened in San Luis Obispo, California in 1925. It was initially called "Milestone Motel," and later changed to "Motel Inn."

Bizarre Fact #115:
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The Xerox company was initially called the Haloid Company.

Bizarre Fact #116:
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The YKK that you see on zippers stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha which is the name of the founder of the zipper manufacturing company in Japan.

Bizarre Fact #117:
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There are over 100 styles of BluBlocker sunglasses available on the market.

Bizarre Fact #118:
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There is a Nike commercial that was shot in Kenya with Samburu tribesman speaking in their native language Maa. The slogan "Just Do It" appears when the tribesman is talking. In reality he was saying, "I don't want these. Give me big shoes."

Bizarre Fact #119:
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There is now an ATM at McMurdo Station in Antarctica, which has a winter population of two hundred people.

Bizarre Fact #120:
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U.S. Postal Service processes 38 million address changes each year.

Bizarre Fact #121:
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U-Haul is the world's largest advertiser in the Yellow Pages.

Bizarre Fact #122:
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When Heinz launched their "green" ketchup in 2000, it delivered the highest increase in sales in the brand's history.

Bizarre Fact #123:
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When Kellogg's Raisin Bran first came out in 1942, they had a bunch of grapes instead of raisins next to the name of the cereal on the cereal box. In 1966, Sunny the happy smiling sun came out and that is when the grapes turned into raisins.

Bizarre Fact #124:
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When Kleenex was first introduced to the market in 1924, it was marketed as a make up or cold cream remover.

Bizarre Fact #125:
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When Scott Paper Co. first started manufacturing toilet paper they did not put their name on the product because of embarrassment.

Bizarre Fact #126:
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When Sony introduced the walkman, it had a variety of different names in different countries. It was called "Soundabout" in the U.S., "Stowaway" in the U.K., and "Freestyle" in Australia.

Bizarre Fact #127:
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When the General Mills Trix rabbit made its debut in 1961, the line he said was, "I'm a rabbit, and rabbits are supposed to like carrots. But I hate carrots. I like Trix!"

Bizarre Fact #128:
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Yahoo! first started out "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web."

Bizarre Fact #129:
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Yamaha is the Japan's largest maker of musical instruments.

Bizarre Fact #130:
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Google.com's intial IPO reports a total offering price of $2,718,281,828 and the value of the natural log e is 2.71828183.