Here are some random facts for you.
1. Lyndon B. Johnson’s beagles were named Him and Her.
2. The British had 500,000 cats enlisted in their army during World War One, mostly to kill rats on ships and at bases. One of them named Simon even got a medal of valor for surviving a brutal attack and continuing to kill rats.
3. The Starbucks at CIA headquarters doesn’t write people’s names on the coffee cups, to protect their identities. Of course, if their spelling of names is anything like my local Starbucks, that should provide SOME level of protection.
4. The frozen margarita machine was invented by a guy named Mariano Martinez in Dallas in 1971. He modified a soft serve ice cream machine to sell drinks at his Mexican restaurant.
5. Hewlett-Packard could’ve been called Packard-Hewlett, Bill Hewlett and David Packard flipped a coin to decide whose name would go first.
(LBJ Library / Priceonomics / Medium / Washington Post / Wikipedia / Wikipedia)
