The oldest patented company logo is the red triangle of Bass beers!
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In 1799, a boy found a 17lb. rock in a creek in North Carolina and used it as a doorstop. It was actually gold.
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In 1897, Bayer, who is the maker of Aspirin, marketed the drug heroin.
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A B-25 bomber airplane crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945.
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In the 1830s, a Greek prime minister tried to spread the potato in Greece but people weren't interested so he put armed guards in front of shipments of potatoes so people would think they were important. People then started stealing these potatoes so much that the crop spread to all of Greece.
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