Saturday, May 25, 2013

BRAND's Facts...!!


·        Coca Cola launched its 3rd product Sprite in 1961.
·        The Australian aircraft carrier QANTAS stands for Queensland and Northern Territories Aerial Service.
·        Hilton was the first international hotel chain.
·        The brand Nokia is named after a place in Southern Finland.

·        M&M's chocolate stands for the initials for its inventors Mars and Murrie.
·        Coca-Cola originally contained cocaine.
·        The first Burger King was opened in Florida Miami in 1954.
·        The last Play Boy centerfold to have staples was published in 1985.
·        There are 1,929,770,126,028,800 different color combinations possible on a Rubik's Cube.
·        Diet Coke was introduced in 1982.
·        No two corn flakes look the same.
·        40% of McDonald profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
·        The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
·        The first Lifesaver flavor was peppermint.
·        Iceland consumes more Coca Cola per capita than any other country.

·        'Lonely Planet' for travelers is based in Melbourne Australia.
·        There are 22 stars in the Paramount studios logo.

·        Porsche also builds tractors.
·        Iceland consumes more Coca Cola than any other country.
·        Master card was originally called Master Charge.


Friday, June 29, 2012

"HOLLYWOOD" FuNnY fAcTs !!!

1.The sign read HOLLYWOODLAND from 1923 to 1949.



2.Each letter originally stood 50 feet (15 m) and 30 feet (9.1 m) wide high, but renovations in 1978 resized the letters to 45 feet (14 m) tall and anywhere from 31 to 39 feet (9.4 to 12 m) wide.


3.In 1932, Broadway actress Peg Entwistle committed suicide by jumping off the letter “H.”


4.Alice Cooper led the 1978 donation drive to remodel the famous sign. The shock rocker contributed $27,000 of his own money to the project, and bought an “O” in memory of Groucho Marx.


5.Hugh Hefner donated to the restoration of the “Y” with a $27,777 contribution.


6.In the 1940s, the sign’s official caretaker, Albert Kothe, destroyed the “H” after crashing into it while driving drunk.


7.In January 1976, following the passage of a state law decriminalizing marijuana, vandals altered the sign to read ” HOLLYWeeD.”


Thursday, June 28, 2012

TV F-u-n-n-y-facts

  1.  Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear trousers.

  2. During the chariot scene in 'Ben Hur' a small red car can be seen in the distance.

  3. The first video aired on MTV was "Video Killed the Radio Star" by the Buggles in 1981.

  4. All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.

  5. One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television !!

  6. The name for Oz in "The Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz."

  7. . More than 3000 people auditioned for Afghan model in 2009. Only 10 were women.

  8. 44% of kids watch television before they go to sleep.