Home Depot is one of the most admired American companies that is out there today. They have just moved into the top 100 for American companies and are listed as the 187th largest company in the world. Now while they have been very successful and still have room to grow, I’m here to tell you 10 secrets that the company doesn’t want you to know.

10. Their hammers are actually made in China. Not good for an American company that prides itself on being so patriotic to its employees and customers.

9. If you spell Home Depot backwards, it says “Toped Em Oh”. That is the message they send out to all the family owned hardware stores in the world. They thrive on being on top and they let out a big “OH” when they knock off another small/family owned hardware store.

8. Fidel Castro actually started Home Depot. Bernie and Artie bought the store with a couple of tractors that both of these rednecks owned their self and traded them to Fidel for the hardware store. Fidel needed them for his sugar cane crops and it turned out to be a pretty good deal for both parties. Cuba is one of the leading nations of sugar, and Home Depot is 2nd in the home improvement business, next to Lowes.

7. The “Do It Yourself” slogan is exactly what you get when you visit a Home Depot store. No workers are around for customer service and if you want anything they have to sell, then you will have to “Do It Yourself”.

6. That they sponsor Tony Stewart in Nascar Racing.

5. That all aisles are exactly 49 inches apart. This is due to an agreement that every Home Depot has an arrangement with all the local funneral parlors in town, that in case of an emergency and the caskets couldn’t be buried, then Home Depot would store them in their stores. Apparently 49 inches is the perfect width to have a casket and men on each side of it, to tote it down the aisles. Be sure to notice this distance the next time you are in their store, going down the aisles.

4.All Home Depot stores have a basement in case of a tornado, hurricane, or nuclear war. No New Orleans residents were allowed to use these basements during the Hurricane Katrina time, because apparently the local casinos moved into these spaces so business could continue as usual for the casinos.

3. Each person you see in a Home Depot commercial is actually a real employee and they save thousands of dollars by not using paid actors and actresses. After shooting the commercials, they are quickly transferred to the Nome, Alaska store and are assigned yard duty. Which the “yard” in Nome is 12 foot of snow 10 months out of the year.

2. That all the ceiling fans you see rotating in the store and on the commercials are actually plugged into a 1/2 mile - 1 mile drop cord that is plugged into a Wal-Mart socket. That is why you always see a Wal-Mart located close by a Home Depot.

1. That the sports team, president Arthur Blank owns (Atlanta Falcons) are used for placing bets for dog fights and football skills are not required. The players pretending to be football players are actually just used for their dog fighting connections.

Now you know the top 10 things that Home Depot didn’t want you to know. I will be back later to let you know what the top 10 things McDonalds uses for hamburger meat and cows isn’t one of them!