coca cola, n.Trivia

Coca-Cola is prescribed as an effective treatment for certain types of bowel obstructions

A can of Coca-Cola will sink while Diet Coke will float.

Coca-Cola only sold 25 bottles its first year. Today, it sells 1.8 billion bottles a day.

Coca-Cola syrup was difficult for Germany to import during WWII. This led to the creation of Fanta.

Iceland consumes more Coca Cola than any other country

Brunch, Eggs Benedict, Bloody Marys, and Coca-Cola were all invented to cure hangovers.

Coca-Cola never patented their "secret formula" because otherwise they would be required to disclose it to the public.

Plastic bottles were first used for soft drinks in 1970

A Coca-Cola employee offered to sell Coca-Cola secrets to Pepsi in 2006. Pepsi responded by notifying Coca-Cola.

Coca-Cola revealed the secret formula of their beverage to Rabbi Tobias Geffen in 1905 so that he could determine whether it was kosher.

Coca-Cola invented a vending machine in 1989 that could adjust its prices based on the temperature, allowing it to hike up the price of a Coke on a hot summer day. Customers denounced the idea, while even Pepsi accused Coke of exploitation

Diet Coke was introduced in 1982

Coca Cola launched Sprite in 1961

A Coca-Cola employee was fired because he was drinking Pepsi on the job in 2003

Coca-Cola is available everywhere except for in North Korea and Cuba

The Coca-Cola made in the Maldives used to be made from ocean water.

Coca-Cola inventor first invented French wine coca, a combination of cocaine and alcohol and French wine.

Coca-Cola's creator originally said the drink would make you smarter.

Coca-Cola made a special clear version of Coke (at the request of President Truman) for Soviet Marshal Georgy Zhukov, so he could pretend he was drinking vodka rather than an American drink

Coca Cola was founded by Joseph A. Biedenharn