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.

Incas used to create pots in the shape of peanuts that were highly prized.

John Quincy Adams, sixth president of the United States, loved to skinny dip in the Potomac River.

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