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The world of retail is filled with a fun and fascinating history. This page presents a quick list of retail facts and trivia from one of the world's most important industries. Did you know that...?

• Baseball cards were first manufactured in 1951. The first company to produce these collectible favorites of children and adults alike was Topps.
• The Mall of America in Minnesota, attracts more visitors annually than Walt Disney World, Graceland and the Grand Canyon combined.
• The "M's" in M&M's candy stand for Mssrs. Mars and Murrie, who developed the popular candy during the war in 1941.
• The Volkswagen Beetle, icon of the anti-war, flower-power 1960's, was originally introduced as a car designed for the masses in Germany by Hilter's Reich in 1935.
• Coca Cola, the omnipresent soft drink and cultural symbol, was invented by a pharmacist from Atlanta, Georgia, Dr. John Pemberton, in May of 1886.
• The name of the Michelin man, composed of tires from head to toe, is Bibendum.
• The 1873 patent received by Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis for putting rivets in their denim apparel was titled "Improvement in Fastening Pocket-Openings." This simple improvement was the key component of what are known as Levi's jeans.

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