The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Coca-Cola, IBM and Microsoft, in that order as of 2009. Google is 7th, but it did not even make the top 100 until 2005. Read More

Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."

Warren Buffet, started out as a Pinball repairman.

Youngest member of The Forbes 400: Mark Zuckerberg, 25 Net Worth: $2 billion Read More

The first ATMs were installed in NYC in 1977 at Citibank branches. Read More

Wal-Mart has "revenues that exceed those of Target, Home Depot, Sears, Kmart, Safeway, and Kroger -- combined." Read More

Farthest you can get from a McDonald's in the USA: 107 miles as the crow flies, 145 miles by car. Read More

In the 40's, the Bich pen was changed to Bic for fear that Americans would pronounce it 'Bitch.'

Ivory bar soap floating was a mistake. They had been over mixing the soap formula causing excess air bubbles that made it float. Customers wrote and told how much they loved that it floated, and it has floated ever since.

Liquid paper was invented by Mike Nesmith's (of the Monkees) mother, Bette Nesmith Graham, in 1951.

Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.

The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time the most known player on the market was the Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.

The first safety razor was not actually invented by King Gillette himself but by a man named William Nickerson who was Kings partner. They believed that the label bearing Nickersons name would be bad for business, plus it was Kings idea anyway.

If all the gold in the world was divided up every one would recieve 3grams.

The IRS employee manual has instructions for collecting taxes after a nuclear war.