--- title: "23 Amazing Facts About Soda" url: https://www.kickassfacts.com/soda-facts/ date: 2023-06-16 modified: 2023-06-16 lang: en author: "jazz" description: "1. A soft drink company made a soda containing lithium called \"Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda\". Later, the company changed the name to the much simpler \"7up\" after Lithium's atomic mass...." categories: - "Fact List" - "Food" image: https://www.kickassfacts.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/soda-bottles.jpg word_count: 617 --- # 23 Amazing Facts About Soda 1. A soft drink company made a soda containing lithium called "Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda". Later, the company changed the name to the much simpler "7up" after Lithium's atomic mass. - [Source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_Up) 2. Soda is fizzier in cans (vs plastic bottles) because CO2 cannot escape an aluminum can. CO2 escapes sealed PET bottles quite readily. - [Source](http://www.dailyedge.ie/soft-drinks-2192004-Jul2015/) 3. Mixing your drinks with diet soda gets you drunk around 18% faster than regular soda. - [Source](http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/pick-your-poison-a-diet-mixer-could-make-you-get-drunk-faster-12071641/) 4. In 2013, after more than 20 years of soda being America's number one beverage, water has taken over as Americans' favorite drink. - [Source](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/03/11/water-americas-favorite-drink/1978959/) 5. The colored dots found on soda cans consist of all the colors used in the can design. If a can makes it through production and a dot is gone, then laborers will be able to trace the problem to a single machine applying that color, without shutting down all of the machines to resolve the problem. - [Source](http://diurnalearn.blogspot.in/2012/12/why-are-there-colored-dots-on-soda-cans.html?repost) [![](https://www.kickassfacts.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/OK_Soda_Original.jpg)](https://www.kickassfacts.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/OK_Soda_Original.jpg)Image credit: en.wikipedia.org 6. In order to capture the Generation X demographic, [Coca-Cola](https://www.kickassfacts.com/30-kickass-interesting-facts-about-coca-cola/) created an off-beat, existentialist soda in the mid-1990s. They named it "OK" because that was the only word more universally recognizable than "Coke." - [Source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OK_Soda) 7. Tapping the top of a shaken soda can does nothing to prevent the soda from bubbling out. Tapping on the side, however, does. - [Source](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQYO3Dp8lCA&feature=relmfu) 8. Drinking one soda a day can increase [diabetes](https://www.kickassfacts.com/25-diabetes-facts/) risk by 22%. - [Source](http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/259604.php) 9. Vernors is the oldest soda still selling in the [US](https://www.kickassfacts.com/25-interesting-facts-about-usa/). It predates Dr. Pepper by 19 years. - [Source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernors) 10. The US Navy was researching ways to chill a can of soda in 10 seconds. - [Source](http://www.navysbir.com/n05_3/N05-164.htm) [![](https://www.kickassfacts.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/SSSpaceFoodOnATray.jpg)](https://www.kickassfacts.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/SSSpaceFoodOnATray.jpg)Image credit: en.wikipedia.org 11. Astronauts do not consume sodas or carbonated drinks in space because the lack of [gravity](https://www.kickassfacts.com/25-kickass-and-interesting-facts-about-gravity/) to separate the liquid and gas in the stomach leads to a kind of vomiting called "wet burping." - [Source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_food#Carbonation) 12. In 1997, Mötley Crüe released a soda called "Mötley Brüe", which promised to turn urine blue. - [Source](http://www.mtv.com/news/1432427/mtley-cre-is-immortalized-in-soda/) 13. The soda fountain was scientists' attempt to recreate naturally occurring bubbling springs that supposedly had "curative powers". - [Source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soda_fountain) 14. In 1991, a false rumor spread that New York-based "Tropical Fantasy" brand soda was bottled by the [KKK](https://www.kickassfacts.com/the-ku-klux-klan-facts/) and contained an ingredient to sterilize black men. Sales of the drink didn't recover until the city's black mayor drank a bottle on TV. - [Source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_Fantasy#African-American_conspiracy_theory) 15. Cow urine is bottled and sold like soda in the Indian state of Gujarat. - [Source](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/1339267/A-gift-from-the-gods-bottled-cows-urine.html) [![](https://www.kickassfacts.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/New_Coke_can.jpg)](https://www.kickassfacts.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/New_Coke_can.jpg)Image credit: en.wikipedia.org 16. While New Coke was a bomb, the return of the original formula as Coca-Cola Classic was very successful. When asked if New Coke was a conspiracy to promote the soda, an executive replied: "We're not that dumb, and we're not that smart". - [Source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Coke#Conspiracy_theories) 17. Juice and soda are roughly equivalent in [sugar](https://www.kickassfacts.com/25-kickass-interesting-facts-about-sugar-sweeteners/) content, and in that respect considered similarly unhealthy. - [Source](http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/06/09/319230765/fruit-juice-vs-soda-both-beverages-pack-in-sugar-and-health-risk) 18. Researchers found that half of the 90 beverages from soda fountain machines test positive for fecal bacteria, antibiotic-resistant microbes and E.coli. - [Source](http://edition.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/01/08/soda.fountain.bacteria/) 19. Shaquille O’Neal has a brand of "Shaq Soda" made by the Arizona company. - [Source](http://drinks.seriouseats.com/2013/09/review-soda-shaq-arizona-cream-sodas-7-eleven.html) 20. In [Canada](https://www.kickassfacts.com/30-kickass-interesting-facts-about-canada-part1/), cream soda is mostly red and tastes like grenadine. - [Source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cream_soda) [![](https://www.kickassfacts.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Soda_jerk_NYWTS.jpg)](https://www.kickassfacts.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Soda_jerk_NYWTS.jpg) 21. Soda was once a controlled substance which was illegal on Sunday and that caused the creation of Sundaes. - [Source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_cream_float#Origins) 22. Some carbon dioxide released from burning coal is captured and used to make bubbles in soda. - [Source](http://content.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1730759_1731383_1731989,00.html) 23. In the 1800s, soda was sold in pharmacies as a way of dispensing medicine by mixing them together to give medicine a pleasant flavor, while Coca-Cola was sold as a cure for dyspepsia and impotence. - [Source](http://www.csicop.org/si/show/pop_culture_patent_medicines_become_soda_drinks)