The Lesser Known Facts About Popular Brands In The World

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In this post, I will tell you some unknown facts about some of the biggest band in the world.

Band-Aid Was Invented Because Inventors Wife Frequently Cut and Burned Herself

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Band-Aid was Invented in 1920 by Earle Dickson, an employee of Johnson & Johnsons. Earle Dickson Invented Band-Ais because of his newly wedded wife used to cut and burned her self while cooking. To help her quickly he made a few steps and stuck squares of gauze and made some ready-made bandages. Earle Dickson passed this idea to the company and then the company produces the produced as Band-Aid in large scale. With this idea, Earle Dickson has huge success in the company and hen went on to become the vice president of the company.

Mountain Dew Was Invented As A Whisky Mixer

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Did you know that in 1940s Tennessee bottlers Barney and Ally Hartman invented Mountain Dew as a mixer with a high profile distilled alcohol, not as an energy drink.

Once Nokia used sell Toilet paper

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Did you know Nokia founded on the 12 May 1865 as a single paper mill operation and used to sell Toilet Paper and black rubber boots. Nokia starts selling Mobile Phones in the 20th Century.

Nutella was invented as substituted for chocolate

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Nutella was invented by Pietro Ferrero of Italy in 1940 during the time of second world war. Pietro Ferrero created a sweet paste made from hazelnuts, sugar and just a little of the rare cocoa. He wanted to create a cheaper chocolate because at that time there was a shortage of chocolate. This simple paste of hazeinut, sugar and little cocoa went on to became famous in late 1951s.

Fanta was made because the creator does not have Coca-Cola syrup

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Fanta was created in Nazi Germany in 1940 at the time of second world war by the German Coca-Cola bottling company. Fanta was created because coca-cola was not available at that time. The shipping between Germany and the USA was stopped during the second world war. Therefore, the German bottling plant could no longer get Coca-Cola syrup.

There four the manager of the plant come up with an idea and made a fruit flavored drink with locally available fruit ingredients so that the plant keeps going. So that's how Fanta was made.

Lamborghini Was Made Because Of A Tractor Company Owner Being Insulted By The The Founder Of Ferrari

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Once Enzo Ferrari insulted Ferruccio Lamborghini as he faced problems with the Ferrari model he bought. After then Ferruccio Lamborghini decided to get into making cars He creates his own brand of car the world knows today as Lamborghini.

Google's first name was Backrub

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yes, you heard right Google's first name was Backrub. When Larry Page and Sergey Brin built a search engine they called that search engine Backrub. After some Backrub was renamed as Google.

Yahoo is not the first name of Yahoo Search Engine

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Yahoo was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 but in an earlier, It was originally called "Jerry and Dave's Guide to the World Wide Web". In April 1994, Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web was renamed as "Yahoo!". The domain yahoo.com was created on January 18, 1995.

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