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When Gerber baby foods began to sell in parts of Africa, they continued to use their usual packaging, with the cute baby on the front. They didn't realize until later that where they were selling it, it was a common practice to help illiterate people buy things by putting pictures on the wrapper of what was inside.
Cow is a Japanese brand of shaving foam.
Due to the shortages of lead and metals during World War II, toothpaste was packaged in plastic tubes and have been ever since.
Ivory bar soap floating was a mistake. They had been 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.
Oral-B is a combination of oral hygiene and the letter B, which stands for the word better.
Q-Tip Cotton Swabs were originally called Baby Gays.
Queen Elizabeth I always wore a necklace with a little perfume bottle attached everywhere she went.
The best selling Crayola crayon box is the set of 24 crayons.
The Food and Drug Administration says the most common injury from cosmetics comes from scratching the eye with a mascara wand.
The most expensive perfume in the world is Parfum VI, which was made by Arthur Burnham. A 4 inch bottle which is covered with diamonds and 24-carat gold costs $71,380.
The spray WD-40 got its name because there were forty attempts needed before the creation of the "water displacing" substance.
Alcohol beverages have all 13 minerals necessary for human life.
Approximately 850 peanuts make a 18 oz jar of peanut butter.
Approximately three jars of peanut butter are sold every second.
Budweiser beer is named after a town in Czechoslovakia.
Dustin Phillips of the U.S. has the record for ketchup drinking. He drank a 14-ounce bottle of tomato ketchup through a ΒΌ inch straw in 33 seconds on September 23, 1999.
Heinz first started making ketchup in 1876 and the recipe has remained the same ever since.
In 1810, Peter Durand invented the tin can for preserving food.
In 1938, Cliquot Club ginger ale was the first soft drink to be canned.
The Kraft company produces enough Cool Whip, a brand of whipping cream, in one year to fill the entire Grand Canyon.
Ovaltine, the drink was from milk, malt, egg and cocoa, was developed in 1904 in Berne, Switzerland. It was originally named Ovomaltine. A clerical error changed it when the manufacturer registered the name.
Researchers in Denmark found that beer tastes best when drunk to the accompaniment of a certain musical tone. The optimal frequency is different for each beer, they reported. The correct harmonious tone for Carlsberg Lager, for example, is 510-520 cycles per second.
The first U.S. consumer product sold in the old Soviet Union was Pepsi-Cola.
The number 57 on a Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties of pickle the company once had.
The secret recipe for Coca Cola, code-named "Merchandise 7X" is kept under lock and key in a vault in the SunTrust Bank Building in Atlanta, Georgia, the home of Coke inventor Dr. John S. Pemberton and current world headquarters of Coca Cola International.
When it originally appeared in 1886 - Coca Cola was billed as an "Esteemed Brain Tonic and Intellectual Beverage".
