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The Zippo fluid evaporates very quickly during Summer. Henceforth, you should take some Anti-Zippo Evaporation Precautions.
Zippos originally costed $1.95 as mentioned by the famous $1.95 Zippo propaganda.
The first record of a Zippo being engraved for a private party ocurred during the late 1930's.
The Zippo's internal estructure has remained virtually unchanged since the late 1930's.
Zippos were formally advertised at first in the year 1937.
A Zippo saved the life of an American soldier fighting in the Belgian territory - an enemy bullet was fired straight to his heart only to be stopped by a Zippo.
More than 300,000 Zippos were sold between the year 1934 and 1940 through the "Punchboard" advertisement. Eventually, the government banned this practice as it was called a "Game of chance".
More than 400 million Zippos have been produced and distributed to every country in the world!
There are some very "cool" Zippo Tricks listed within Parxy.com.
More than 12 million Zippo lighters are produced every year.
If all the available Zippos in the world were placed back to back, they could go from the United States to England... twice.
Zippo inventor, George G., liked the word "zipper" - therefore the word "Zippo".
During the year 1988, reproductions of the 1932-model Zippo were offered to "subscribed" users.
Zippos have a life-time guarantee - if you have a 1947 Zippo, and it broke, you can send it to the Zippo Corp. to have it replaced as mentioned in the Zippo Replacement Question.
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