COCA-COLA

The formula is a trade secret, kept in a bank in Atlanta. An urban legend says that only have access to it two managers.

In 2011, the magazine "Time" revelled that apparently a group of detectives, found the list of ingredients of Coca-Cola.

Coca-Cola was created by John Pemberton in 1886. At the beginning it was a medicament to relieve headache and bellyache and it was made of coca leaves and cola seeds. Then it was sold to quench thirst. Frank Robinson named it as Coca-Cola and made the logo.

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1976 - Coke adds life.

1979 - Have a Coke and a smile

1982 - Coke is it!

1985 - America's Real Choice

1986 - Red White & You

1986 - Catch the Wave

1989 - Can't Beat the Feeling.

1991 - Can't Beat the Real Thing.

1993 - Always Coca-Cola.

2000 - Enjoy.

2001 - Life tastes good.

2003 - Real.

2005 - Make It Real.

2006 - The Coke Side of Life

2007 - Live on the Coke Side of Life

2008 - love it light

2009 - Open Happiness

2010 - Twist The Cap To Refreshment

2011 - Life Begins Here

2012 - Open Happiness

1939 - Whoever you are, whatever you do, wherever you may be, when you think of refreshment, think of ice cold Coca-Cola.

1941 - Coca-Cola is Coke!

1942 - The only thing like Coca-Cola is Coca-Cola itself.

1944 - How about a Coke?

1945 - Coke means Coca-Cola.

1945 - Passport to refreshment.

1947 - Coke knows no season.

1948 - Where there's Coke there's hospitality.

1949 - Coca-Cola ... along the highway to anywhere.

1952 - What you want is a Coke.

1954 - For people on the go.

1956 - Coca-Cola ... makes good things taste better.

1957 - The sign of good taste.

1958 - The Cold, Crisp Taste of Coke

1959 - Be really refreshed.

1963 - Things go better with Coke.

1966 - Coke ... after Coke ... after Coke.

1969 - It's the real thing.

1971 - I'd like to buy the world a Coke.

1974 - Look for the real things.

1886 - Drink Coca-Cola.

1904 - Delicious and refreshing.

1905 - Coca-Cola revives and sustains.

1906 - The great national temperance beverage.

1908 - Good til the last drop

1917 - Three million a day.

1922 - Thirst knows no season.

1923 - Enjoy life.

1924 - Refresh yourself.

1925 - Six million a day.

1926 - It had to be good to get where it is.

1927 - Pure as Sunlight

1927 - Around the corner from anywhere.

1928 - Coca-Cola ... pure drink of natural flavors.

1929 - The pause that refreshes.

1932 - Ice-cold sunshine.

1937 - America's favorite moment.

1938 - The best friend thirst ever had.

1938 - Thirst asks nothing more.

1939 - Coca-Cola goes along.

1939 - Coca-Cola has the taste thirst goes for.

Can't beat the feeling

Open happiness

• Coca-Cola can be used to help cure jellyfish stings.

• Coca-Cola can also be used as a cleaning solution, cleaning anything from rusty pans to dirty toilets. It can also be used to remove odor.

• If you accidentally got gum in your hair, rinse it in Coca-Cola and the gum will come of very easily.

• Coca-Cola was first green.

• It used to contain cannabis but in 1905 it was removed due to public concern.

• Coca-Cola means “to make mouth happy” in Chinese.

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

• 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 was 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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In 1983 a new Coca-Cola rival arises, Pepsi. Even its beginning wasn't really brilliant, later it bacame a problem for the leader company. When Pepsi started it was an unfamiliar brand and it became bankrupt twice. Coca-Cola had the opportunity to buy it but the company rejected Pepsi's offer, thing they would regret years later, when the little company rised and became a powerful rival. That happened because Pepsi began to gain importance in the market thanks to its aggressive advertising against Coca-Cola.

Everybody knows how Santa Claus looks like actually: Jolly, with a red suit and a white beard. But he didn't always look that way, it was Coca-Cola advertising what created this modern-day image of Santa. Before, the image of Santa was a small and thin man. It was in 1931 when magazine ads for Coca-Cola featured St. Nick as a kind man in a red suit.