The brands we know and love today started off small. Each has their own story that ultimately shaped them as a company. It also means there are some quirky facts hiding in their history. The following are 10 things you may not have known about your favorite big brands.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s a McDonald\u2019s about 80 miles from Buckingham Palace that the Queen of England owns. An article written by Anna Lewis for delish.com<\/a> explains by saying, \u201cSo how does this work exactly? Well, this particular branch of McDonald\u2019s is on land that forms part of the Crown Estate, which is property owned by the Sovereign. Therefore, that is very much the Queen\u2019s McDonald\u2019s.\u201d<\/p>\n Google started out under a different, unfortunate name. The company was originally called BackRub. Luckily, in 1997 they changed it to Google which is a reference to a mathematical term.<\/p>\n Did you know the bird in the Twitter logo has a name? This little critter is called Larry.<\/p>\n Levi Strauss was actually a wealthy aristocrat. He created blue jeans for the working class. Strauss never even wore his own creation because he considered himself above the garment.<\/p>\n It\u2019s no secret that McDonald\u2019s is an incredibly popular fast food chain. Let\u2019s put that into perspective. McDonald\u2019s feeds roughly 68 million people every single day. This number is more than the entire population of the UK.<\/p>\n As crazy as it sounds, roughly 300 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute. There will definitely never be shortage of new content!<\/p>\n The early days of FedEx were a struggle. In fact, in order to save the company, the founder took its last $5k to a casino in Vegas. He ended up turning that money into $32k which ultimately helped turn the business around as well.<\/p>\n If you needed further proof of how great Rolls Royce vehicles are, here it is. 75% of RR vehicles are still on the road today. Given that this company was founded in the early 1900\u2019s, this is an incredibly impressive feat.<\/p>\n Samsung, a company known for their electronics, didn\u2019t originally sell this type of merchandise. In fact, when they started out, they were known as the preferred place to go for dried fish and other groceries.<\/p>\n Ben & Jerry\u2019s, one of the world\u2019s most popular ice cream brands, almost started their business with an entirely different product. The founders originally thought about selling bagels. While there\u2019s a good chance those bagels would have been delicious, it\u2019s hard to imagine a world where Ben & Jerry\u2019s ice cream doesn\u2019t exist.<\/p>\n Women are known to spend a pretty penny on the right pair of jeans. However, Gucci set a Guinness World Record when they created and sold the world\u2019s most expensive pair. They cost a whopping $3,134.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The brands we know and love today started off small. Each has their own story that ultimately shaped them as a company. It also means there are some quirky facts hiding in their history. The following are 10 things you may not have known about your favorite big brands. Royal Fast Food There\u2019s a McDonald\u2019s… 10 Interesting Facts about your Favorite Big Brands<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1345,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/homesweethomeowner.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/homesweethomeowner.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/homesweethomeowner.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homesweethomeowner.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homesweethomeowner.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/homesweethomeowner.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1346,"href":"https:\/\/homesweethomeowner.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions\/1346"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homesweethomeowner.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/homesweethomeowner.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homesweethomeowner.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homesweethomeowner.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Unfortunate Name<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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Endless Content<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Lady Luck<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Longevity<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Product Change<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Another Direction<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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