Post Some Amusing Facts!
01-26-2010, 12:57 PM
Business
It takes about 63,000 trees to make the newsprint for the average Sunday edition of The New York Times.
In 2001, the five most valuable brand names in order were Coca-Cola, Microsoft, IBM, GE, and Nokia.
The largest cereal company in the world is Quaker Oats, located in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA.
Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum.
In 1897, Bayer, who is the makers of Aspirin, once marketed the drug heroin.
In the late 1960's, Mountain Dew bottles featured a hillbilly on them. These are now collector items worth five to ten dollars.
The first product to ever be scanned with a bar code was Wrigley's gum on June 26, 1974.
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."
Yamaha is Japan's largest maker of musical instruments.
It takes about 63,000 trees to make the newsprint for the average Sunday edition of The New York Times.
In 2001, the five most valuable brand names in order were Coca-Cola, Microsoft, IBM, GE, and Nokia.
The largest cereal company in the world is Quaker Oats, located in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA.
Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum.
In 1897, Bayer, who is the makers of Aspirin, once marketed the drug heroin.
In the late 1960's, Mountain Dew bottles featured a hillbilly on them. These are now collector items worth five to ten dollars.
The first product to ever be scanned with a bar code was Wrigley's gum on June 26, 1974.
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."
Yamaha is Japan's largest maker of musical instruments.
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