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Stories behind "10" popular Brand Names

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               IKEA 17 years old young businessman called Ingvar kamprad is founder of IKEA in 1943. The furniture name is actually an acronym of Ingvar kamprad Elmtaryd Agunnaryd, Here "Ik" indicates founder name and "E" indicates farm name where founder raised and "A" indicates founder home town.             GOOGLE  Founded in 1996 and originally called as "Backrub". Later , when co-founder Larry Page missepelled the number "Googol",which is digit followed by 100 zeroes. Larry Page and co-founder Berin decided to rename Backrub as Google , because domain name was available. Page said, Most of the people misspell many things, that is why Google corrects spelling mistakes of all searches.          SAMSUNG In 1938, founder Lee Byung-chull named his company Samsung because it means "Three stars" in Korean . He wanted his company to lasts forever like stars in the sky, while number three rep...

Unknown facts about Trains

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                   Indian Railways Why Blue colour trains are replacing by red& green colour coaches?       Blue colour coaches are called as ICF  coaches- Integral Coach Factory,situated in Chennai. Whereas red&green coaches are made up from LHB- Linke Hoffman Busch- Germany company but  in India, Kapurthala line coaches manufactuers them .   Some of the reasons to replace them are , ICF basic demerits are if any failure occurs it looks up to replace the parts rather than upgradation &repair.ICF uses dual buffer coupling system to merge two coaches and due to this whenever accident happen coaches climb on one another and it leads to major losses. whereas lHB uses center buffer coupling system,due to this coaches won't climb on eachother,they fell side by side and reduce loss. LHB coaches passenger capacity is more than ICF coaches.ICF speed is 110kmph whereas LHB's  speed is 160kmph. What d...