Odd interesting and rare facts

From today onward i will be blogging about some rare , old , new , interesting facts (Mainly from what i read to what i here and what i study ) This is mainly for gratification of my quizzing mentality and so here we go :

1. Colgate's first toothpaste came in a jar.
2. Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses  down - hence the expression "to get fired."
3. The creator of the NIKE Swoosh symbol was paid only $35 for the design. Bill Bowerman, founder of the shoe company Nike, got his first shoe idea after staring at a waffle iron. This gave him   the idea of using squared spikes to make the shoes lighter.
4. Sahib , Sindh & Sultan were the names of first 3 locomotives of The Indian Railways that went from Bombay to Thane in 1853 . 
5. The first charity Christmas card was sent in 1949, it was designed by 7 year old Jitka Samkova of Rudolfo, Czechoslovakia. Her village received UNICEF emergency assistance in the form of food and medicine following World War II.In gratitude to the organization, Jitka painted a picture of the sun shining on a group of children dancing around a maypole. She used a sheet of glass to work on as there was no paper available. The scene, she explained means joy going round and round. Her teacher entered the painting for a UNICEF competition and winning the first prize and was made into UNICEF's first Christmas card.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
6. The Indian Railways were initially established to solve the supply side problem of cotton to be fed to Textile Industries in Manchester . Initially all the cotton was sourced from plantations in USA but because of the imminent war & water crisis , the cost of the cotton increased considerably . As a result textile industrialists from England sent Er. Graham Clark to survey the areas in which railway lines can be laid and cheap cotton can be sourced from India .
7. The word "Bluetooth" is an anglicised version of the Scandinavian Blåtand/Blåtann, the epithet of the tenth-century king Harald I of Denmark and parts of Norwaywho united dissonant Danish tribes into a single kingdom. The implication is that Bluetooth does the same with communications protocols, uniting them into one universal standard.^[4][5][6]
   The Bluetooth logo is a bind rune merging the Younger Futhark runes  (Hagall) (ᚼ) and  (Bjarkan) (ᛒ), Harald's initials.