Coca-Cola still uses coca leaves in its signature syrup, and there is only one factory in the US with the unique DEA license required to remove the cocaine.
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Saturday, 20 September 2014
Coca-Cola still uses coca leaves in its signature syrup…
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Today in History for 20th September 2014
Historical Events
451 - Roman General Flavius Aetius defeats Attila the Hun at The Battle of the Catalaunian Plainsat (Chalons-sur-Marne) halting Hun invasion of Roman Gaul
1187 - Saladin begins the Siege of Jerusalem.
1935 - Pitts Crawfords beat NY Cubans to win Negro NL Championship, 3-0
1983 - 3,112 turn out to see Pirates play NY Mets at Shea Stadium
1987 - "Big River" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC after 1005 perfs
2001 - In an address to a joint session of Congress and the American people, U.S. President George W. Bush declares a "war on terror".
Famous Birthdays
1832 - Johann Joseph Abert, composer
1859 - Yuan She-k'ai, Chinese general/president/dictator
1960 - Deborah Roberts, American journalist and TV reporter
1975 - Asia Argento, Italian actress
1980 - Jonathan Le Billon, British actor
1993 - Taylor Parks, American actress
Famous Deaths
1806 - Utamaro Kitagawa, painter, dies
1933 - Annie Besant, English theosophy (Esoteric Christianity), dies
1946 - Raimu, French actor (b. 1883)
1973 - Jim Croce, vocalist (Time in a Bottle), dies in a plane crash at 30
2004 - Brian Clough, English footballer and football manager (b. 1935)
2005 - Tobias Schneebaum, American writer, anthropologist and explorer dies at 83
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Mika Brzezinski, an MSNBC News Anchor, refused to read a report about Paris Hilton…
Mika Brzezinski, an MSNBC News Anchor, refused to read a report about Paris Hilton’s release from jail on National Television and ranking it over a story on the Iraq War. Then after repeatingly being pressured to do the story, she attempted to light the script on fire on the air.
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A man died while cleaning machinery with gasoline, which dripped onto a rat…
A man died while cleaning machinery with gasoline, which dripped onto a rat that was running across the floor. The rat’s gasoline-coated fur ignited when it ran beneath a heater with a pilot light, causing an explosion that killed the worker – a story of negligence now taught in law schools.
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The largest object in the known universe is over…
The largest object in the known universe is over 10,000,000,000 light years across and theoretically should not exist.
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At the beginning of the song Roxane by The Police, during the intro…
At the beginning of the song Roxane by The Police, during the intro, you can hear a strange piano chord, then Sting laughing. In fact, during the voice recording, Sting accidentally sat on the piano just behind him. They decided to keep this on the final mix.
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There exists an image of Columbia space shuttle reentering atmosphere just before…
There exists an image of Columbia space shuttle reentering atmosphere just before it disintegrated. It was snapped casually by people in Kirtland Air Force Base testing their tracking telescope.You can see debris stream out from left wing.
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