The secret to happiness, in life and in business....

Find something you love to do so much, you can’t wait for the sun to rise to do it all over again

Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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At the age of 20, we don't care what the world thinks of us; at 30, we worry about what it is thinking of us; at 40, we discover that it wasn't thinking of us at all.... at it goes on and on !!

What's In A Name?

That answer to that, would be...fish.  But we'll get to that in a minute.
This isn't even a Fin-nish story. It's Swedish, and has to do with the name of that fabulously popular group from the 1970s and 80s, called "ABBA", or sometimes "Abba".
All of the members of ABBA, had some experience with music prior to forming their own group.  Benny Andersson, and Bjorn Ulvaeus would cross paths in the late 1960s, and finding common interests, began writing songs together.  Each of them continued on with their own bands, and it would be Bjorn's group "The Hootenanny Singers" which brought him together with a young talent, Agnetha Faltskog.  They married in 1971, in Sweden's version of a celebrity ceremony.  Anni-frid Lyngstad would meet up and become a couple with Benny, and so the four came together, all of them musical, but going their own ways.
Benny and Bjorn's entry in the major Eurovision Song Contest in 1972, won them a third place.  With the feedback from that, they decided to take another crack at writing and this time performing their entry for 1973, a song titled "Ring, Ring", which again placed third.  But this time it was performed by the group "Bjorn, Benny, Agnetha and Frida" (Frida being Anni's nickname).  They went on to record a moderately successful album under the song title, which was a lot shorter than the group's name.  That was when Benny decided to shorten it to the first letters of their names: A, B, B, A.  Their entry in the contest for 1974, was the now famous "Waterloo", which won first place for ABBA.
But before taking the name on the road, they had to negotiate permission with a Swedish canning company of the same name...which sold fish.

My bank is the worst. They're charging me money for not having enough money in my account. Apparently, I can't even afford to be broke.

From Twigs to Toothbrushes

It was a long way from chewing twigs, to the first Oral-B toothbrush, created by Dr. Robert Hutson, a periodontist.
But 5000 years ago, twigs were just what ancient Egyptians used to clean their chompers. The slender tip of a tree branch was broken off, and then chewed until the end was frayed. This served as a brush to clean around their teeth, and had the benefit of being easy to find next time they needed a new one.
The first tool actually made in brush form for the teeth, originated in China, circa 1498A.D., when the bristles from a hog's neck, were embedded in handles of bone or bamboo. European adventurers brought the invention back to their home countries, where it seemed that horsehair replaced the pig bristles. It was a while catching on though, as those few who did practice dental care, generally used the "old-fashioned" Roman toothpick.
Not until 1938, when the Dupont Company invented nylon, would the modern toothbrush take the form of a plastic or wood handle with nylon bristles. In the 1940s, Hutson produced the Oral-B 60, so named for its 60 rounded, soft bristles. The company name was derived from "oral hygiene" with a "B" for "better".