3. Heinz had 60 products when it came up with the slogan “57 Varieties” . . . because Henry Heinz thought 57 was a luckier number.
4. Rio de Janeiro is NOT the capital of Brazil . . . Brasilia is. But Rio WAS once the capital of PORTUGAL. In the early 1800s, the Portuguese royal family fled there to get away from Napoleon. Lisbon became Portugal’s capital again in the 1820s.
5. A chemist named William Mitchell is credited as the key inventor behind Pop Rocks, Tang, AND Cool Whip.
