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FUN FACTS ABOUT COCA COLA:

Name
The name Coca-Cola comes from two of its original ingredients: coca leaves and kola nuts.

History
Pharmacist John Pemberton invented Coca-Cola in Atlanta, Georgia in 1886 as a tonic to treat common ailments. Pemberton's bookkeeper, Frank Robinson, named the drink and wrote the logo in his distinctive handwriting. The first Coca-Cola was served at Jacobs' Pharmacy on May 8, 1886.

Bottle
The Coca-Cola bottle's iconic contour shape was inspired by the curves and grooves of a cocoa bean, which designers originally thought was an ingredient in the drink. If all Coca-Cola bottles were laid end to end, they could reach the moon and back more than 1,677 times. Coca-Cola was also the first soft drink to be sold in bottles made from recycled materials.

Ingredients
Coca-Cola still contains decocainized coca leaf extract, which is a secret ingredient that contributes to the drink's unique flavor. The original Coca-Cola also contained cocaine, which was legal at the time.

Other facts
Coca-Cola was once sold as a nerve tonic that could "relieve exhaustion". White Coke was originally created for a Russian general. More than 10,000 Coca-Colas are consumed globally every second. A 12-ounce can of Coke contains about 39 grams of sugar, or about 9 1/3 teaspoons. Coca-Cola was also the first soft drink to travel to space in 1985

FUN FACTS ABOUT DIET COKE:

Floats in water
Diet Coke floats in water because it has less sugar and fewer sweeteners than regular Coke, making it less dense and lighter.

Originally called Tab
When Coca-Cola first introduced their diet soda in 1963, they called it Tab because they had a policy of only using the Coca-Cola name for their flagship cola.

Diet Coke was marketed with a lowercase "d"
For many years, the brand name was written with a lowercase "d" to emphasize its positioning. However, Coke's lawyers wouldn't allow an uppercase "D" because they considered it a noun, which would change the trademark name.

Diet Coke contains aspartame
Diet Coke uses the artificial sweetener aspartame, which is much sweeter than sugar and requires less to achieve the same level of sweetness.

FUN FACTS ABOUT SPRITE:

Did you know Sprite originated in Germany and was introduced to the US in 1961? Sprite is also the third most popular soft drink in South Africa (after Coca‑Cola and Fanta).

FUN FACTS ABOUT LEMONADE:

Origin
The earliest recorded lemonade-like drink, qatarmizat, was made in Egypt in 500 AD by mixing lemon juice and sugar. In 1630, lemonade was introduced in Paris, where vendors sold it from tanks strapped to their backs.

Names
Lemonade is called "lemonade" because it's a mixture of lemon juice, water, and sweetener, unlike "orange juice" which is just orange juice mixed with water and sugar.

Colors
Pink lemonade can get its color from red berries or food dye, but folklore says the original pink lemonade was made in the mid-1800s using water from a vat that washed pink stockings. A New York Times obituary in 1912 also credits Henry E. Allott, a Chicago man who ran away to join the circus as a teenager, with inventing pink lemonade by accidentally dropping red cinnamon candies into a batch of lemonade.

Other facts
California and Arizona produce 95% of the lemons grown in the United States, and a single lemon tree can produce up to 600 pounds of lemons in a year.
The earliest documented lemonade stands were in Brooklyn in 1873.
Lemons are a great source of vitamin C, which helps your body absorb other nutrients and is good for your skin.
Lemon juice also has antioxidant and anticancer properties, and can help with digestion and constipation, and may help prevent kidney stones.

FUN FACTS ABOUT WATERLOO:

Sustainability: Waterloo uses zero-waste plants to filter and manufacture their water, and they package their water in recyclable aluminum cans made from 70% recycled materials. They also try to reduce transit miles and support local businesses.
Flavors: Waterloo's flavors are inspired by fruit and are designed to create a multi-sensory experience that includes aroma, taste, and mouthfeel. Some of their flavors include watermelon lime mint, dragon fruit punch, and Meyer lemon blueberry.
Ingredients: Waterloo's water is sourced regionally and undergoes a multi-step filtration process before carbonation and canning to remove fluoride, sodium, and other additives. Waterloo's flavors are also Non-GMO Project Verified and Whole30 Approved, and their water is free of calories, sugar, and artificial sweeteners.
Packaging: Waterloo's water is sold in aluminum cans with BPA-free liners.
Partnerships: Waterloo has partnered with sporting arenas and other organizations.

FUN FACTS ABOUT DR. PEPPER:

Origin
Dr Pepper is America's oldest major soft drink brand, created in Waco, Texas in 1885. It was originally called Waco and served at Morrison's Old Corner Drug Store soda fountain, where pharmacist Charles Alderton is thought to have invented it. Customers loved it and would ask for "Shoot me a Waco". As demand grew, the drugstore couldn't keep up with supplying syrup to other drugstores, so a company was formed and a new name was needed. Wade Morrison, the drugstore owner, suggested Dr Pepper, possibly after his would-be father-in-law, Charles T. Pepper, a doctor from Virginia. Morrison may have named the drink in gratitude for Pepper giving him his first job.

World's Fair
Dr Pepper was introduced to the world at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, where it was an immediate success.

Formula
Dr Pepper's secret formula is kept in two separate bank vaults in Dallas.

Sweetness
Dr Pepper gets its sweet taste from high fructose corn syrup, but fans also believe it contains extracts that replicate other sugars, like molasses and caramel.

Period
The period after "Dr" was dropped in the 1950s to make it easier to read on smaller bottles.

Roanoke Valley
Roanoke Valley, Virginia is known as the Dr Pepper Capital of the World, in part because of its famous Dr Pepper sign.

Winter beverage
In the 1960s, Dr Pepper tried to market itself as a warm winter drink, but sales dipped in the cold weather

FUN FACTS ABOUT ICED TEA:

1. While tea has been sipped hot here in America since Colonial days, nonalcoholic tea wasn’t widely consumed on ice until the turn of the 19th century, when entrepreneurs in the northern United States started shipping ice down South and to the Caribbean. As Americans began to take a leading role in the 19th-century global ice trade, the greater availability of ice made iced tea more common.

2. Tea was, however, used as an ingredient in alcoholic punches as far back as the early 1700s, and appears in historic punch recipes like Regent’s Punch, which dates to 1815 and includes green tea and the South Asian liquor arrack as well as citrus juice, sugar, champagne, brandy and rum.

3. The origins of early nonalcoholic iced tea recipes can be traced to 1876. A few years after that, sweet tea began to take hold in the South.

4. Iced tea’s popularity took off in the early 1900s, after visitors to the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis embraced it.

5. Prohibition and the increasing availability of home refrigeration (with freezers) in the 1920s and ‘30s — not to mention the greater affordability of tea itself — sealed the deal: Iced tea was here to stay.

FUN FACTS ABOUT BOTTLED H2O:

The first documented sale of bottled water was in Boston in the 1760s.
The Holy Well bottling plant in the United Kingdom was the first to sell bottled water in 1622.
In ancient times, mineral water was considered a gift from heaven and was used to treat the sick and for cosmetology.
Americans buy almost 15 billion gallons of bottled water every year, which is more than they drink milk or beer.
Bottled water production can use up to 2,000 times more energy than tap water production.
The bottle itself can account for up to 90% of the cost of bottled water.
According to the Natural Resources Defense Council, up to 25% of bottled water is actually tap water.
Scientific testing has found that bottled water is no safer than tap water.

FUN FACTS ABOUT OJ:

Health benefits
Orange juice is a good source of vitamin C, which is a powerful antioxidant that can help with immunity, bone formation, wound healing, and gum health. It also contains folate, which supports fetal growth and development, and potassium, which can help regulate blood pressure and prevent heart disease and stroke. Orange juice with pulp is also a good source of fiber. However, orange juice is high in sugar, so it's important to limit consumption.

Oranges
Oranges are a hybrid of a pomelo and a mandarin, and originated in Southern China and Malaysia around 2500 B.C. . Oranges grown in temperate climates turn orange, but those grown in the tropics tend to remain green. To get the bright orange oranges we see in stores, they might be exposed to ethylene gas, coated in wax, or dyed.