In 2003, a Coca-Cola employee was fired because he was drinking Pepsi on the job.

In 1952, Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel. However, he politely declined the offer.

Up until the late 1960’s, long-haired male visitors to Disneyland were turned away because they didn’t meet the unwritten dress code.

Melba toast and Peach Melba are both named after the most famous opera singer of the late Victorian era, Dame Nellie Melba.

On January 1 st, 1976, the day that relaxed marijuana laws came into effect in California, Danny Finegood, an art student at Cal State Northridge, and some of his friends, took $50 worth of fabric to the Hollywood sign and changed it to read “Hollyweed.” They used the gag as a school project, earning them an A.