from my emails ; dont we all mr bob hope dont we all ;

To SUBSCRIBE: http://www.gophercentral.com/sub/sub-trivia.html
The WD in WD-40 stands for Water Displacer.
Bayer was advertising cough medicine containing heroin in 1898.
When Scott Paper Co. first started manufacturing toilet paper they did not put their name on the product because of embarrassment.
Nothing to laugh at... The Prudential Life Insurance Company in USA stopped using their slogan "Own A Piece Of The Rock" after Rock Hudson died of AIDS and many jokes where made about him and the slogan.
Say Cheese... The Brownie box camera, introduced by Eastman Kodak, sold for $1.00 in 1900. The camera's 6-exposure film sold for 15 cents.
Levi Strauss blue jeans with copper rivets were priced at $13.50 per dozen in 1874.
The first golf car was invented in the late 1940s strictly for people with disabilities
The first vending machines in the United States were installed on New York City train platforms in 1888 and dispensed Chewing gum.
Buddy was the name of the FIRST SEEING EYE DOG in America, brought to the U.S. in 1928 from Switzerland by owner Morris Frank.
James Garfield, the 20th president of the U.S., could write Greek with his left hand and Latin with his right hand simultaneously.
"Grateful Dead" It refers to when one came across a dead person who was not buried because of a debt. The traveler would pay off the debt, and it would be believed that the dead would come back as an animal to help the person.
Always the Comedian During the World War II, Bob Hope's plane was shot at when he was on his way to perform for the troops. His response to this threat was: "I have critics everywhere."