10 Fun Facts About Coca Cola

In what city was Coca-Cola first served?

The first glass was poured at Jacob's Pharmacy on May 8, 1886, just after Atlanta and Fulton County passed prohibition laws, and was marketed as 'the temperance drink'.

Who is credited with inventing the Coca-Cola formula?

Pemberton, a Confederate veteran addicted to morphine after a war wound, created it as a non-alcoholic version of his earlier French Wine Coca nerve tonic.

How much did a glass of Coca-Cola cost when it first went on sale in 1886?

A loosely worded 1899 bottling contract fixed the price of a bottle at a nickel too, which kept the price of Coke frozen from 1886 all the way to 1959.

Who designed the iconic script logo for Coca-Cola?

Pemberton's bookkeeper also coined the name and chose the flowing Spencerian script, the dominant style of formal American handwriting at the time.

The famous contour bottle for Coca-Cola was patented in what year?

Designer Earl R. Dean of the Root Glass Company based the shape on a picture of a cocoa pod, having failed to find any images of the coca leaf or kola nut in the library.

The drink's name refers to which two of its original ingredients?

Pemberton's syrup called for five ounces of coca leaf per gallon; fresh leaves were dropped in 1903, and today a cocaine-free extract is prepared at one federally licensed plant in New Jersey.

Coca-Cola became the first commercial sponsor of the Olympic Games at which Games?

The sponsorship has run unbroken ever since, including the 1996 Atlanta Games in the company's home town.

'The pause that refreshes' became a Coca-Cola slogan in which year?

It arrived the year of the Wall Street crash, replacing 1928's 'Coca-Cola ... pure drink of natural flavors', and became one of the brand's longest-remembered lines.

What year saw the introduction of Coca-Cola Cherry, the company's first flavored cola extension?

It arrived in the same turbulent year as New Coke and was only the second extension of the brand, after Diet Coke in 1982.

Which no-calorie cola, launched in 2005 with a distinct formula, had the word Sugar added to its name in 2016-17?

Unlike Diet Coke, which used an entirely different formula, it was designed to mimic the taste of the flagship cola; it was reformulated again in 2021.