Little Known Facts About Products

I dug deep for this one. I'm hoping you don't know these.

Q-tips Cotton Swabs were originally called "Baby Gays."
The name Quaker Oats inspired several law suits. The Quakers themselves unsuccessfully petitioned the United States Congress to bar trademarks with religious connotations.
Each year Reynolds Metals sells enough Cut-Rite Wax Paper to circle the globe more than fifteen times.
Saran, the trademark name for vinylidene chloride polymer, was made up by Dow chemists, who added the word Wrap to clarify the new plastic's purpose.
Scotch Tape has been used as an anti-corrosive shield on the Goodyear Blimp.
The astronauts on Apollo 8 played with Silly Putty during their flight and used it to keep tools from floating around in zero gravity.
Mrs. Edwin Cox, the inventor's wife, named the soap pads S.O.S., for "Save Our Saucepans," convinced that she had cleverly adapted the Morse code international distress signal for "Save Our Ships." In fact, the distress signal S.O.S. doesn't stand for anything. It's simply a combination of three letters represented by three identical marks (the S is three dots, the O is three dashes).
On March 22, 1994, Hormel Foods Corporation celebrated the production of its five billionth can of SPAM.
If laid end to end, five billion cans of SPAM would circle the earth 12.5 times.
Five billion cans of SPAM would feed a family of four, three meals a day for 4,566,210 years.
Tabasco Pepper Sauce was named after the Tabasco River in southern Mexico by creator Edmund McIlhenny because he liked the sound of the word.
On Saturday Night Live, Mrs. Loopner (Jane Curtin) and her daughter Lisa Loopner (Gilda Radner) drank Tang by the pitcher. Beldar Conehead (Dan Aykroyd) consumed mass quantities of the orange powder dry and straight from the jar.
While driving from Beloit, Wisconsin, company founder Benjamin Hirsch, the developer of Plastone car polish, stopped at a place named Turtle Creek, rested by a stream, and was struck by his reflection in the water. Realizing that his car polish provided a wax coating as tough as a turtle shell and as reflective as Turtle Creek, he renamed his product, Turtle Wax.
In the 1940s rice farmers in Houston, Texas, rated their rice against the rice grown by a local farmer named Uncle Ben. Frank Brown, a maítre d' in a Houston restaurant, posed for the portrait of Uncle Ben.
Norman Larsen, president and head chemist at the Rocket Chemical Company, developed a water displacement formula on his fortieth try, naming it WD-40.
Elmer Cline, the Taggart Baking Company vice president appointed to merchandise a new one-and-a-half pound loaf bread, was awed by the sight of the sky filled with hundreds of colorful hot-air balloons at the International Balloon Race at the Indianapolis Speedway. The wonder of that sight prompted Cline to name the new bread Wonder Bread, and colorful balloons have been featured on the Wonder Bread wrappers ever since.
Wrigley's Spearmint gum is named after company founder William Wrigley, Jr., and the common garden mint (Mentha spicata) better known as spearmint because of the sharp point of its leaves.
Alberto VO5 is named after the chemist Alberto who invented Alberto VO5 Conditioning Hairdressing. VO5 stands for the five vital organic emollients in the hairdressing.
While seeking a name and package design for the world's first self-rising pancake mix, creator Chris L. Rutt saw a vaudeville team known as Baker and Farrell whose act included Baker singing the catchy song "Aunt Jemima" dressed as a Southern mammy. Inspired by the wholesome name and image, Rutt appropriated them both to market his new pancake mix.
Barbasol is a combination of the Roman word barba (meaning beard, and the origin of the word barber) and the English word solution, denoting the shaving cream is the same solution used by barbers. The stripes on the can evoke the familiarity of barbershop-pole stripes.
A picture of an Indian chief was on the first bottles of Coppertone, accompanied by the slogan "Don't be a Paleface." Little Miss Coppertone replaced him in 1953.
In 1903, the Binney & Smith company made the first box of Crayola crayons costing a nickel and containing eight colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, brown, and black.