First Liquid Bleach Factory

Opened in 1913, the Electro-Alkaline Company of Oakland, Calif., was America’s first commercial scale liquid bleach factory. But an engineer for one of the company’s equipment suppliers suggested that the bleach needed a snappier name. That engineer, Abel M. Hamblet, designed a diamond-shaped logo and combined the names for the product’s two active ingredients, chlorine and sodium hydroxide, coining the brand-name Clorox.

Only two U.S. Presidents are buried at Arlington National Cemetery: William Howard Taft and John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

In the English language, the letter Z shows up only once, on average, in every 1,000 letters. On the other hand, the letter E would be used about 130 times in that same passage while the letter T would appear 93 times.

At 23 years old, George Armstrong Custer was the youngest man ever to become a general in the U.S. Army.

The average person swallows almost 600 times a day.

Etymologists claim that the word bridegroom first got its start as the Old English brydguma. Bryd became bride. Guma, a poetic word for man, became gome. But by the 16th century, nobody remembered what gome meant, so they replaced it with the term for a servant-male: groom.