The Papasan Chair

The original CEO of Pier 1 Imports was a Vietnam War veteran. While on an all day hump, he came upon a village where the elders were sitting on some very unique chairs. He purchased one of these chairs and immediately shipped it home, out of Pier 1 in Ho Chi Minh City. It would be the first product sold at Pier 1, the Papasan chair, named for the village elder.

Pineapples

As Pineapples do not have seeds, they are technically vegetables.

Queens, New York

Most people don't know that Queens was actually one of the first developments in the New World by King Charles the 2nd. When he grew tired of his wife he intended to send her to Queens and then pretend she had died of natural causes; thereby allowing him to remarry and permitting the queen to live.

Grout

90% of grout that you see on a daily basis used to be white...Gross.

Fryday

Friday is so named because it was the day that people used to fry all of their foods for the weekend. Frying is a good way to preserve foods, the oil keeps out bacteria for at least a couple of days. When people began to concern themselves with cholesterol, the Greenwich Calendar Association, or GCA changed the spelling of the day from Fryday to Friday.