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Famous for their tortilla chips and accompanying dips, Tostitos has perhaps one of the best hidden logo messages of all time. The two lowercase t‘s in the logo represent people holding a chip, and the dot on top of the letter i serves as their bowl of salsa.
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To demonstrate the precision of their product, this razor company decided to cut the tips of the letters g and i in their logo as if an actual razor had done it.
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The Subway logo features arrows pointing in opposite directions to represent the entrance and exit of a subway station, symbolizing that you can have delicious fast food on the go.
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When Domino’s first opened, the founders didn’t expect the pizza chain to get as big as it did, and so they intended to add a dot to the dominos in the logo every time a new location opened. However, the company quickly grew too big to do such a thing, and so today the three dots in the logo represent the three original locations.
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During WWII Japan paid 1 million yen to a team of scientists that promised they could create a “death ray” that would use wave electric power to kill humans standing miles away, drawing on the innovations of Nikola Tesla. The Japanese got as far as a prototype that could kill from as far away half a mile—but the target had to stand still for 10 minutes for it to work.

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Since they’re cheaper and less well-known, you might naturally assume that Hydrox cookies, with their dark chocolate wafers and vanilla cream, are knock-offs of Nabisco’s Oreo cookies. However, the truth is the reverse: Hydrox first came out in 1908, but Oreos didn’t hit the shelves until 1912.
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Surely you’ve seen the blurb in movie credits that says, “This is a work of fiction. Any similarities…” blah, blah, blah. It’s in there because, in 1933, MGM decided to make a film about the death of Rasputin and the fall of the Romanov reign. Thing is, one of the men who had helped kill Rasputin was not only still alive, but also making money off a memoir that bragged about his part in the Mad Monk’s murder. Even though the character was renamed, the assassin was able to successfully sue the studio for libel.
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Coker Tire has long been known as the source for classic and muscle car tires, but the latest acquisitions by the Coker Group should ensure that the company becomes the vendor of choice for muscle car and race car wheels as well. On January 8, the Coker Group announced its purchase of wheel manufacturers Vintage Wheel Works and PS Engineering, broadening its offerings to the restoration marketplace.

Each of the two wheel companies has its own specialty. Vintage Wheel Works began offering products for the domestic muscle car market in 1991, initially focusing its efforts on first-generation Mustangs, Camaros, and Corvettes. From the beginning, its goal was to offer wheels that looked period-correct but were manufactured with modern materials (and modern processes) in sizes to accommodate larger contemporary performance tires. Vintage Wheel Works calls itself the first manufacturer to focus on domestic muscle cars, and today offers fitments for nearly any such vehicle, built from the 1950s through the 1980s.


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