14 • January 2018 • UPBEAT TIMES, INC. Weird Facts & Trivia - 3


The inventor of 7-Up, C.L. Grigg never explained how he came up with the name. Some of the stories about the origin are:


Grigg saw a cattle brand with the number ‘7’ and the letter ‘u’.


The drink has ‘7 natural fl avors’ and carbonation.


The 7 is for the original size - 7 ounces - and the Up was of ‘bot- toms up’.


In 1952, Mr. Potato Head was born, consisting entirely of parts, consumers had to supplly


the potato. Mr. Potato Head was the fi rst toy to be advertised on network television. Mrs. Potato Head appeared in 1953, and in 1964 the Potato Heads begin to come with plastic bodies included.


California discovered the commercial potential of raisins quite by accident. In 1873, a freak hot spell withered the grapes on the vine. One enter- prising San Francisco grocer ad- vertised these shriveled grapes as “Peruvian Delicacies” and the rest is history. California is now the world’s leading producer of raisins.


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