General "Did you Know?"s

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Acme. The name used in Looney Toons, and many more cartoons alike is not made up, and is an actual company that was around during the beginnings of the telephone, and the yellow pages.

Because the yellow pages were alphabetized. It would show A first so companies wanted their products to be the first to be seen, meaning that people would call their products "ACME "Product"" so it would be the first one people would see in a phone book.

So, if you were looking for Anvils. Acme Anvils would be the first thing you would see by looking at it in the phone book.

Very few of these companies still exist today, but you could probably find them in the phone book.