The shopping cart was first introduced in 1937.  It was invented by Sylvan Goldman, the owner of the Humpty Dumpty grocery chain in Oklahoma City. And no one liked them.  Men found them effeminate, and women found them suggestive of a baby carriage . . . in a bad way.  But they eventually became a hit, and Sylvan became a multimillionaire, off his royalties from the design.

The producers of “Gone with the Wind” were fined $5,000 for using the word “damn” in the movie.

A politician named Daniel Webster turned down the offer to be vice president twice in the 1800s, because he only wanted to be president.  The offers came from William Henry Harrison and Zachary Taylor . . . who both died in office.

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