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Planters Peanuts enduring advertising symbol, Mr. Peanut, was created by a Virginia schoolboy as part of a 1916 drawing competition. Antonio Gentile of Suffolk, Virginia received $5 for his winning entry.

When the popular board game Scrabble was invented in 1931, it was called Lexico. Inventor Alfred M. Butts then switched the name to Criss-Cross Words. In 1948, James Brunot, a friend a Mr. Butts, copyrighted the name as Scrabble.

Union Pacific's stock has been included in the Dow Jones Transportation Average since the index was created more than a century ago.