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14 Random Air Facts Pulled Out of Thin Air

1 Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia, the founders of Airbnb, originally dubbed their idea AirBed&Breakfast—a combo of air bed, which they relied on for their own house guests, and bed and breakfast. The name shifted to the snappier Airbnb, where few air mattresses can be found (thankfully).

2 The polished-aluminum, sausage-shaped is unmistakable. The company was the brainwave of Wally Byam, who built the first prototypes out of Masonite in his California backyard in the late 1920s. He published a

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