Over 100 years ago, people were drinking Coke to feel sexy.
The creator of Coke was a colonel in the Confederate Army.
After earning a medical degree, John Stith Pemberton served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War and it was his life-threatening wound that sparked his quest in creating Coke. Pemberton had become addicted to morphine, and sought a way to combat this addiction.
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The original Coca-Cola prototype was both alcoholic and coked-up.
In 1885, Pemberton began marketing a beverage called "Pemberton's French Wine Coca," a mix of coca, kola nut, and damiana (a flowering shrub that has anti-anxiety and aphrodisiac qualities).
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Coke is 127 years old?!
It officially launched wayyyyyy back in 1886.
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Coke was originally marketed as a cure to many ailments including low sexual libido.
Pemberton was forced to take the alcohol out of his original coke wine formula due to prohibition laws, but he first touted that version as "a most wonderful invigorator of sexual organs." Once he launched Coca-Cola, he called the drink a "Brain Tonic" and "temperance drink" (anti-alcohol), saying it cured headaches, anxiety, depression, indigestion, and addiction.
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