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Useless facts
A can of Pepsi has 41 grams of sugar. This amount to about seven teaspoons of sugar.
Coca-Cola used to contain cocaine when it was initially introduced.
Coca-Cola was the first soft drink to be consumed in outer space.
Every second, 8000 Coca-Cola Company products are consumed in the )
In 1886, Coca-cola was first served at a pharmacy in Atlanta, Georgia for only five cents a glass. A pharmacist named John Pemberton created the formula for Coca-cola.
In 1929, the Coca-Cola slogan was "The Pause That Refreshes."
Pepsi got its name from the ingredient pepsin, which is said to aid in digestion, however, it is not known.
The Coca Cola company offers more than 300 different beverages.
The citrus soda "7 UP" was created in 1929. The original name of the popular drink was "Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda", but it got changed to "7 UP."
The formula for Coca-cola has never been patented.
The oldest major soft drink in America is Dr. Pepper, which originated in
The original name for the soft drink Pepsi was "Brad's Drink."
The reason the soft drink Dr Pepper is called that is because the inventor Wade Morrison named it after Dr. Charles Pepper who had given him his first job.
When Coca-Cola was invented, American tourists that visited Spain were surprised to see that Coke was three times as expensive as a glass of brandy.
A person would have to drink more than 12 cups of hot cocoa to equal the amount of caffeine found in one cup of coffee.
Coffee beans were chewed for more than 400 years before the first cup of coffee was brewed.
Coffee has about five times the amount of caffeine as a can of Coke.
Decaffeinated coffee is not 100% caffeine free. When coffee is being decaffeinated, 2% of the caffeine still remains in it.
Over the course of one year, a coffee tree only produces about 1.5 pounds of coffee.
Seniors who drink a cup of coffee before a memory test score higher than those who drink a cup of decaffeinated coffee.
The rarest coffee in the world is Kopi Luwak, which is found in Indonesia. It cost about $300 a pound
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