curiosities
Heinz ketchup
number “57”:
It represents the
number of varieties
Telephone touch-tone keypads and calculator
of pickles the
key pads are arranged differently:
company once had.
One theory says that it was intentionally reversed so that
people who were already fast at operating calculators
would slow down enough
The three most valuable
to allow the signals of the phone to register.
brand names in the world
are: Marlboro, Coca Cola, and
Budweiser, in that order.
aircraft names have
so many letters and
numbers: For example,
all Japanese army aircraft
were designated with a
‘Ki’ prefix followed by a
number. ‘Ki’ means “kitai”
or production number. If
a model has a ‘KAI’ suffix,
it means it is a modified
version, while Italians
tend to put the initials of The kings represented
the designers first, like on playing cards: Spades -
Fiat CR.32, meaning the King David; Clubs - Alexander
model was designer by the Great; Hearts -Charlemagne;
Celestino Rosatelli. Diamonds - Julius Caesar
‘Sleeping tight’
on mattresses:
In Shakespeare’s time,
mattresses were secured
The name of the typeface on bed frames by ropes.
woody allen uses in When you pulled on
the titles and credits of
the ropes, the mattress
nearly all of his movies:
tightened, making the
If you have ever wondered
bed firmer to sleep
after seeing a W.A. movie, the
on. Hence the phrase,
typeface is Windsor.
“goodnight, sleep tight”.
The origin of the Horse statue language:
name of the soft If a statue in the park of a person
drink “7 Up”:
on a horse has both front legs
Created in 1929, “7”
in the air, the person died in
was selected because
battle. If the horse has one front
the original containers
leg in the air, the person died
were 7 ounces and
as a result of wounds received
“UP” indicated the
in battle. If the horse has all four
The first product to have direction of the legs on the ground, the person
a bar code: Wrigley’s gum bubbles. died of natural causes.
7 deadly sins
1 Pride: Designer homes, label clothing, cool gadgets – 4 Lust: Not all vibrations are equal – just because it vibrates
they only get you so far in the game, unless you´re set on a doesn´t mean it can make you quiver. But, then again, it just might
gold digging path do the trick...
2 envy: You can always fake myopia and grab a Philip Stark 5 anger: Happens to all of us when we lay eyes on a cheap fake
eye-wear piece just to show everyone how much of a hardcore of a piece we just had to have and paid an arm and a leg for.
fan you are
6 Sloth: Not taking the time and patience to find a reasonable
3 gluttony: Too much of a good thing is still bad. There’s piece to fit your needs - not every sofa sits well in every living room
only so many pieces you can enjoy without being labelled a
pack rat 7 greed: There’s more to life than money (so they say). Just don’t
get into unpayable debt with the loan sharks for that new couch
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