Beverages Facts Generator

• [Beverages fact 1] The common image of Santa Claus (Father Christmas) as a jolly old man in red robes was not created by The Coca-Cola Company as an advertising gimmick. Despite being historically represented with different characteristics in different colours of robes, Santa Claus had already taken his modern form in popular culture and seen extensive use in other companies' advertisements and other mass media at the time Coca-Cola began using his image in the 1930s.

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• [Beverages fact 2] A Florida-based beer company named Saltwater Brewery created fully edible 6-pack rings from brewing byproducts such as wheat and barley. The rings are just as strong as the plastic variety, yet completely digestible and biodegradable.

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• [Beverages fact 3] Shirley Temple disliked her namesake drink, as she disliked the idea of cocktails for children. She also found most varieties to be “too sweet” for her tastes. She also sued companies seeking to mass-produce the drink, claiming it diluted her commercial value and invaded her privacy.

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• [Beverages fact 4] Because the organs and systems in a fetus are not able to metabolize and excrete caffeine fully, caffeine can stay in its blood 10 times longer than in an adult. Because of this, physicians advise that pregnant women drink a moderate (less than 200 milligrams) amount coffee per day.

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• [Beverages fact 5] Coffee "beans" are not actually beans. They are the seeds of coffee cherries, which grow on fruit trees.

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• [Beverages fact 6] Thieves in Paris recently drilled through a limestone wall in the Catacombs into a high-end apartment building wine cellar and made away with $300,000 worth of vintage wine.

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• [Beverages fact 7] During prohibition, grape farmers would make semi-solid grape concentrates called wine bricks, which were then sold with the warning "After dissolving the brick in a gallon of water, do not place the liquid in a jug away in the cupboard for 20 days because then it would turn into wine".

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• [Beverages fact 8] Before Champagne became popular, fizz in wine was considered a bad thing and benedictine monk Dom Perignon worked to eliminate it. Wines from Champagne had a tendency to fizz because early frosts often led to incomplete fermentation during the manufacturing process.

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• [Beverages fact 9] In Ireland, it had been a tradition to be given a pint of Guinness beer for a pint of donated blood, to replace the iron. However this program was cancelled in 2012.

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• [Beverages fact 10] In England and Wales, it’s legal to consume alcohol on private premises from the age of 5.

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