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10 Fascinating Facts about Soda Traditional Cache

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This cache was put out by Team Cache Divers in celebration of their Big 10 Anniversary. Even though the event was planned it had to be cancelled due to Geowoodstock being the next weekend. But we decided to put the caches out for our friends anyways.

This is a large cache and should be fairly easy to do a park and grab. Please use your best stealth and recover it so it doesn't get muggled.


10 Fascinating Facts about Soda


  • # 10. Brands - Coca Cola has some 3500 different soft drinks in its international arsenal; if you were to try one a day it would take you 9 years to drink them all, and there are even more than that around the world like the Japanese flavors yogurt, green tea, octopus, wasabi and more
  • # 9. v 7-Up and Litium - Lithium citrate is a mood stabilizing drug which is used to treat depression and bipolar disorders. Today it requires a prescription but years ago it was a common ingredient in 7-Up and it contained Lithium until 1948
  • #8. Dr. Pepper - One of the greatest mysteries of all time, the 23 ingredients that comprise Dr. Pepper have been speculated upon for decades. One of the ugly rumors spread about the soda was that it contained prune juice, which was untrue. The exact formula is top secret still to this day.
  • #7. Grossest Soda - Manufactured for the Italian market by Coca-Cola Beverly is described as a non-alcoholic apertif and is available in the World of Coca-Cola Museum in Atlanta and Las Vegas. Many are universally shocked by its bitter astringent flavor. YouTube abounds with amusing videos of those enjoying a taste test.
  • #6. Passover Coke - Kosher Coke by Coca-Cola is produced in March and April to coincide with the Passover season and it is sweetened with pure sugar cane and can be identified by the yellow cap.
  • #5. Variable Price Coke Machines - In the late nineties, Coca-Cola got the bright idea to install vending machines whose price varied depending on the temperature of the soda's, the cooler ones cost more, but people complained of price gouging and corporate greed and Coca-Cola backpedaled quickly.
  • #4. Magician - In 1990 as part of it's "Magic Summer" promotion, Coca-Cola installed spring-loaded mechanisms in special cans that contained prizes such as cash and concert tickets. To keep people from detecting the prize winning cans without buying them they installed chambers filled with chlorinated water. Unfortunately the mechanism's weren't always reliable and sometimes the people drank the water instead. It wasn't poisonous but it was foul and Coca-Cola folded the program after 3 weeks.
  • #3. Pepsi Points - In 1996 Pepsi unveiled its points program. Buying Pepsi products would earn you a number of points which could be redeemed for merchandise like t-shirts and hats. The commercial included a Harrier jet 7 million points or you could buy points for 10 cents. A student with investors raised the points needed for the $33.8 million Harrier jet but Pepsi refused, and the case was brought to court but was dismissed.
  • #2. Diet Soda Cocktails - Recent research conducted indicates that drinking cocktails made with diet soda versus regular can get you 18% drunker. This study is especially important to women, who are more likely to order diet cocktails.
  • #1. Nazi Fanta - When trade embargoes against Nazi Germany separated Coca-Cola Deutschland from the US headquarters the ingredients to produce Coke quickly dissipated. German born Max Keith developed a soda that could be made with the limited ingredients they had at their disposal. The result was “Fanta”, a play on the German word “Fantasie”. It was made with odds and ends: beet sugar, orange juice, leftover apple fiber, etc. The recipe has since been updated and he handed back control of his operations to headquarters.

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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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Decryption Key

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(letter above equals below, and vice versa)