David McConnell started the California Perfume Company (CPC) in 1886. Today the company is known as Avon, which he named after his favorite playwright William Shakespeare, and Stratford on Avon.

The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottle represents the varieties of pickle the company once had.

Teenage cosmetic surgeries nearly doubled in the USA between 1996 and 1998.

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