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Today, we're pouring out some thirst-quenching facts about popular beverages
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By 1893, Charles E. Hyers had been asked to develop a beverage to combat hard drinking
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during the temperance movement leading up to Prohibition. Root beer was reportedly very popular during Prohibition
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with brands like A&W available as early as 1919. When an O.J. Carton says from concentrate, it means it has been dehydrated or compressed
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and then recombined with water to make the product you now see before you. Not from concentrate means all that stuff didn't happen
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The reason orange juice from concentrate was invented was so the U.S. military could provide troops with sufficient amounts of vitamin C during World War II
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Irish botanist Sir Hans Sloan visited Jamaica and tried to drink cacao with water but didn't like it
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As an alternative, he mixed it with milk and sugar and went head over heels for the stuff
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Of course, mixing cacao with milk and sugar was almost certainly something the indigenous
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people already did. He is often incorrectly credited with inventing the drink entirely
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Coca-Cola was produced as early as 1929 in Germany. Part of the American company's strategy
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to introduce the drink to the world included being present at sporting events like the 1936
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Olympics. But when World War II broke out, a lack of materials like sugar made it impossible for
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Coca GmbH to keep up production So the company shifted to using local goods and in the end came up with a completely different soft drink Fanta Short for the German word for fantasy the soda included
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leftovers from leftovers at first, but beet sugar was eventually used in the recipe. This made it
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sweet so consumers actually wanted to drink it. When Crystal Pepsi launched in 1992, it was hyped
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to the moon leading up to its release, so Coca-Cola had to respond. So they released Tab Clear
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but here's the catch. Coca-Cola had no intention of making Tab Clear a success. The beverage was
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released specifically to Torpedo Crystal Pepsi, and it worked. The writing on the wall was crystal
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clear for both brands within six months. In movies and TV, when a reluctant hero has been
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hitting the bottle and needs to sober up for the big fight, someone always suggests a cup of
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In reality, coffee has no sobering effects whatsoever. Coffee and its BFF ingredient caffeine can make a person more alert
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but that's not always a good thing if you're intoxicated. In 2022, researchers determined that tea contains DNA from hundreds of insects
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Now, they said it was only a tiny fraction, but enough to help scientists better understand the movements and activities of insects over time
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Researchers chose tea and herbs for the study. specifically because they are not as processed as products like coffee
