.... daylight Savings Time began as a joke by Benjamin Franklin, who proposed waking people earlier on bright summer mornings so they might work more during the day and thus save candles. It was introduced in the United Kingdom in 1917 — and then spread around the world.
.... Muhtar Kent, Coca-Cola’s chief executive, refuses to travel or sign documents on any Friday the 13th. He avoids hotel rooms located on the 13th floor. Recent Coke press releases avoid the dreaded number, saying “along with Coca-Cola, the company’s portfolio includes 12 other billion dollar brands.”
.... Britons were concerned when U.S. President Barack Obama ordered the return of a bust of Winston Churchill borrowed by President Bush and displayed in the Oval Office. President Obama also devoted 35 pages of his memoir, Dreams from My Father, to his grandfather's claims of torture during British colonial rule in Kenya.
.... chicken feet cost two cents in the United States, but 55 cents in China. Tyson, the food company, makes a good profit shipping feet from the United States to China. In the process, it also subsidizes Americans and their penchant for chicken breast.
.... the word “bankrupt” originally comes from Italy, deriving from banca rotta, or broken bench. When a medieval moneylender could not pay his debts, his bench was broken in two, sometimes over his head.
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