David McConnell started the California Perfume Company (CPC) in 1886. Today the company is known as Avon, which he named after his favorite playwright William Shakespeare, and Stratford on Avon.

Coffee beans were chewed for more than 400 years before the first cup of coffee was brewed.

The waste produced by one chicken in its lifetime can supply enough electricity to run a 100-watt bulb for five hours.

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