Category Archives: Consumer

Aug 05 2015
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Consumer

Fact #905: Canadian Tire did a credit card study in 2002 and found there’s a strong correlation between people who buy bird seed and people who usually pay their debts. Inversely, people who bought chrome accessories for their car tended to not pay their debts in full.

 

Jul 08 2015
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Consumer, Language

Fact #895: Chef Boy-Ar-Dee is spelled that way so that Americans could correctly pronounce “Boiardi.”

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hector_Boyardee

Jun 22 2015
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Consumer, Weather

Fact #884: Weathermen generally over-predict chances of rain, maximizing viewer happiness by increasing their precautions to not get wet. This is called “The Wet Bias”.

Source: http://www.randalolson.com/2014/06/21/accuracy-of-three-major-weather-forecasting-services/

Jun 08 2015
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Consumer

Fact #874: Partners of the venture capital firm Sequoia Capital “literally walked the streets of Mountain View” to find Whatsapp, which had no public address or signage at the time.

Sequoia became Whatsapp’s only outside investor and pocketed $3.5 billion when the company sold to Facebook in 2014.
May 28 2015
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Consumer, Entertainment

Fact #867: The modern Ouija Board got its name by asking the board what it should be called.

Source: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-strange-and-mysterious-history-of-the-ouija-board-5860627/?all&no-ist

May 22 2015
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Consumer

Fact #864: At some point in the 90s, half of all CDs manufactured in the world had an AOL logo on them.

Source: http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/27/aol-discs-90s/

May 01 2015
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Consumer

Fact #849: In 2008 Tropicana changed its logo from an orange with a straw in it to a glass of orange juice. Their sales dropped 20% in one month so they went back to the original.

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/tropicana-packaging-change-failure-2013-9

Mar 19 2015
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Consumer

Fact #819: Audi, Bentley, Bugatti, Ducati, Porsche and Lamborghini are all owned by Volkswagen.

Source: http://www.volkswagenag.com/content/vwcorp/content/en/brands_and_products.html

Mar 09 2015
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Consumer, Money

Fact #811: Game of War: Fire Age has a 40 million dollar advertising campaign and makes 1 million dollars a day.

Source: http://www.dorkly.com/post/71697/5-insane-things-about-the-mobile-game-starring-kate-upton

Feb 03 2015
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Consumer, Technology

Fact #788: Every Apple iPhone advertisement displays the time as 9:41 AM, the time Steve Jobs unveiled it in 2007.

 

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