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• M&Ms candies were called P&Ps until the company went public in 1936, and stockholders thought the name sounded to much like "peepee".
• Dimes take about 72 hours after being minted to lose their distinctly red hue.
• The software company Adobe is owned by Navaho Indians.
• Artificial syrup, originally twice as expensive to produce as maple syrup, was popularized when restaurants in the U.S. were forbidden from serving maple syrup, during the brief period in time when it was legally considered to be a "bodily fluid".
• In the AOL Instant Messenger, if a person gets "warned" up to 100% a total of five times, s/he receives a personalized warning, as an IM from Steve Jobs.
• Pepperidge farm abandoned their initial ideas for Doghair Blasted Goldfish™ in favor of the slightly more appealing Cheddar Blasted Goldfish™ we have today
• The America Online Instant Messenger's "yellow guy" mascot represents Benjamin Franklin.
• It is unlawful in the United States to posess Cuban currency.
• Karl Rove owns approx. 40% of Jenny Craig, Inc.
• Mead (the notebook company) originally started as a brewery
• Alan Thicke invented the dime.
• Microsoft is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the alchohol giant Colt, Co.
• One of the major factors used to determine if a company will hire someone is how annoying their laugh is.
• Egypt was not a desert until major corporations ruined the environment.
• The 'i' in iPod, iMac and iTunes stands for 'intellectual.'
• Yamaha translated literally into english means "Holy Moly!"
• Sony in english means "very small"
• Phillip Morris (the tobacco company) has signed a deal with the National Medical Association (NMA), which states that all Hepatitis shots shall contain trace amounts of nicotine, in the hopes that this will help start addiction at a younger age.
• The urban legend about pop rocks and soda was originally true, since pop rocks were initially made of explosives until the FDA deemed this unsafe.
• In the past ten years, Chinese interests have bought 56 percent of American oil companies

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