DO NOT PUBLISH – Soda Facts That You Didn’t Know [SPONSORED]

Chances are you've had a soda at least once in your life, and if you're like a lot of Americans, you have at least one every day. And recently Buzzfeed put together a list of some interesting soda facts, and chances are you didn't know all of these facts about the leading soda brands.

Coke makes a kosher version for passover

Because Coke is generally made with high fructose corn syrup in the United States, it isn't kosher, because observant Jews do not consume food made from certain grains, including corn, during Passover.

So, in cities with large Jewish populations, Coke puts out a kosher version made with cane sugar for the Passover season. It's easily identified by it's yellow cap, as seen in the photo above.

Mountain Dew was made as a whiskey mixer and its name is slang for a kind of booze

While now it has the image of being the soda of choice for skateboarders and other extreme athletes, Mountain Dew had a distinctively different beginning.

In the book, "Fizz: How Soda Shook Up The World," author Tristan Donovan said that Mountain Dew was invented in the early 20th century after brothers Ally and Barney Hoffman developed the drink as a mixer for bourbon. They gave it the name Mountain Dew, which was a slang term for moonshine. In fact, the original Mountain Dew label had a cartoon drawing of a hillbilly with a jug of moonshine!

Dr. Pepper was once marketed as a hot beverage!

No really.

Check it out for yourself....wow, the 1950s and 1960s were a different time.

Someone tried to force Pepsi to give them a real military fighter jet

It was the promotion that proved that Pepsi's marketing people at the time completely underestimated the human race. In 1996, Pepsi was running a promotion where people collected "Pepsi Points" to trade in for stuff. They made a commercial that included an actual Harrier Fighter jet in the promotion for 7,000,000 points.

Most people figured out this was obviously a joke, but one tenacious person tried to exploit a loophole where you could buy points for 10 cents each. He figured out that the $700,000 in points was a bargain for the $34 million plane and he got a group of investors together and tried to claim his jet. Pepsi said there was no jet, and of course the case went to court, where it was settled in 1999 when a judge ruled in favor of Pepsi, saying there was no way a reasonable person could have expected a military fighter jet to be included in a soda promotion.

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