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...that the Hershey Creamery Company, founded in 1894 by five brothers from the Hershey family, has actually been owned and operated by the Holder family since the 1920s?
...that Dick's Last Resort, an American bar and restaurant chain, encourages the staff to act obnoxiously towards their customers?
...that the last Silk motorcycle ever built was a 500cc model based on a prototype that was never produced and was used as a competition prize?
...that Roderigue Hortalez and Company was a fictitious front organization set up by France to help American revolutionaries fight England?
...that out of 300 entries for the Honor Award from the United States Department of Transportation and the National Endowment for the Arts, Wallace Roberts & Todd was one of eleven who won the award?
...that John W. Lambert in 1891 made the first U.S. car for sale as well as Union cars and Lambert cars using his gasoline engines and gearless transmissions for the Union car company and Lambert car company as subsidiaries of the Buckeye Manufacturing Company?