Branding Facts

The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.

In Australia, Burger King is called Hungry Jack's.

Is bottled water worth it? 'Evian' spelled backwards is 'naive'.

Q-Tip Cotton Swabs were originally called Baby Gays.

Pepsi-Cola was originally called 'Brad's drink'.

'Bimbo' is a brand of soft drink distributed by Arca Continental, a major Coca-Cola bottling company in Latin America.

Crayola is a French word that means 'Oily chalk.'"

20252 is Smokey the Bear's own zip code.

The first Ronald McDonald was Willard Scott in 1963.

Budweiser beer is named after a town in the Czech Republic (formerly Czechoslovakia).

Google was originally called "BackRub".

Rihanna reportedly insured her legs for $1 million with Lloyd's of London after becoming a brand ambassador for Gillette's Venus razors in 2007.

Coca-Cola owns all the domain names that can be read as 'ahh' — from ahh.com all the way up to a domain with 62 h's. They registered all 61 variations for a 2013 marketing campaign called 'The Ahh Effect.'

For decades, Scotland was the only country where Coca-Cola wasn't the best-selling soft drink. The local favorite Irn-Bru held the top spot until around 2012, when Coca-Cola finally overtook it—though Irn-Bru remains a beloved national icon.