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Coca Cola 125th anniversary
Posters from 1890-1993

There's nothing we like better than a Coke to cut through the sarney at lunch. Except a pint. Or a brandy. Or a brandy dropped in a pint. Enough about our personal problems though, have a look at some of these joyous visuals from Coca-Cola posters of yesteryear...

 

Fun Facts about Coca-Cola
- Coca Cola was first invented by a pharmacist name John Pemberton as a medicine to cure headaches

- If all of the Coca-Cola ever produced was put into 8-ounce contour bottles: There would be more than six trillion bottles, which stacked end-to-end, would reach 468 miles high - 85 times taller than Mount Everest The six trillion bottles roughly equals 966 bottles - or more than 56 gallons of Coca-Cola - for every person in the world If laid end-to-end, these bottles would reach to the moon and back 1,677 times

- The Coca-Cola contour bottle is so distinctive that it can be recognised in the dark

- Blues players have been known to use necks from Coca-Cola's contour bottles to play slide guitar, coining the term 'bottleneck slide'

- Making art out of daily life, Andy Warhol featured Coca-Cola's contour bottle in his modern paintings. Warhol's "Green Coca-Cola

- If all the Coca-Cola bottles in the world were laid end to end they would reach the moon and back more than 1,677 times

- Only a few people know the secret formula for Coca-Cola. Concentrate for Coca- Cola is made in a number of centralised production facilities, and is exported to all countries in the world that bottle Coca-Cola.

- Coca-Cola is the most recognised trademark, recognised by 94% of the world's population and is the most widely recognised word after "OK".

- The Coca-Cola system has more than 500 brands available around the world including Diet Coke, Fanta' and Sprite and there are more than 1200 bottling plants around the world.

- The first three countries to bottle Coca-Cola after it was introduced in the United States were Cuba, Panama and Canada.

- There are nearly 10,450 soft drinks from The Coca-Cola Company consumed every second of every day.

- If all the Coca-Cola ever produced were in regular sized bottles, there would be over 4 trillion bottles. If these were stacked on a football field the total would make a mountain over 325 miles high. This is more than 60 times taller than Mount Everest, the highest mountain in the world.

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