In Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift described the two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, giving their exact size and speeds of rotation. He did this more than 100 years before either moon was discovered. The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola. He was an albino.
Canola oil is actually rapeseed oil but the name was changed in Canada for marketing reasons.
In the United States, a pound of potato chips cost two hundred times more than a pound of potatoes. The 57 on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties of pickle the company once had. Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine. The word denim comes from 'de Nimes', or from Nimes, a place in France. The word 'pound' is abbreviated 'lb.' after the constellation 'libra' because it means 'pound' in Latin, and also 'scales'.