Here are some random facts for you.
1. A study in 1896 found that 90% of all commercial ketchups contained “injurious ingredients” that could lead to death. Like harmful preservatives, coal tar used as a dye, and poisonous byproducts from the manufacturing process.
So “at a time when no one else cared” Henry Heinz was a visionary who was obsessed with making products as pure as possible. He refused to use the brown opaque bottles that were common at the time. Instead, his see-through bottles were a design statement: Purity through transparency.
2. Peter Frampton’s “Baby, I Love Your Way” peaked at number 12 on the Billboard charts and Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Free Bird” peaked at number 19.
But when the pop group Will to Power mashed them up and made a song called “Baby, I Love Your Way/Freebird Medley (Free Baby)” in 1988, it became a number one hit.
3. After President Benjamin Harrison’s wife died, he wound up marrying her niece.
4. 40% of twins invent their own languages.
5. Bea Arthur was once in the MARINES, she served as a truck driver.
(Fast Company / Wikipedia / Benjamin Harrison / Huff Post / The Smoking Gun)
