Amazing Facts

This website has an absolutely staggering amount of random facts on it. You should check it out, you might have to create an account to do so, but it's totally worth it!

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Some random facts:

A dime has 118 ridges

The most productive workday is Thursday, the least productive is Friday

American airlines saved $40 000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class

Every year kids in North American spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum

In 1873 Colgate made a toothpaste that was available in a jar

In 1923 the first neon sign was introduced in the US. Two neon signs were sold to a PACKARD car dealership for $24000 which read "Packard"

Oil tycoon John D Rockefeller was the world's first billionaire

Over one million pet rocks were sold in 1975

Sales of antacids increases by as much as $20 the day after the Superbowl

the average number of pillowcases washed at the MGM grand hotel in Las Vegas each day is 15000

The famous jewelery store Tiffany & Co. was established on September 18, 1837 in New York City the amount of sales that were made the first day was $4.98

The first product ever scanned with a bar code was Wrigley's gum on June 26, 1974

The total mileage driven by all U-Haul trucks in a year is enough to move a person from Earth to the moon five times a day for a year

When Heinz launched green ketchup in 2000 it delivered the highest increase in sales in the company's history.