By Karl Parker

The Founder

• Coca-Cola was found in May 1886 by Dr John Pemberton

Coca Cola first arrived here in 1900 when ‑Charles Candler, son of The Coca Cola Company ‑founder Asa Candler, brought a jug of syrup with him on a visit from the US to England. It was first sold in the UK on 31 August 1900, but didn't go on sale regularly until the early 1920s, when it appeared at outlets around London including Selfridges and the London Coliseum.

The Bottles

How many cans are sold worldwide a day?

There are 1.7 billion servings of Coca Cola sold every day ‑according to a 2010 report

Coca-Cola is a carbonated soft drink sold in stores, restaurants, and vending machines in more than 200 countries.

What Coca- Cola owns:

• Sprite• Dr Pepper • Kia Ora• Vitamin water• Powerade

• Lilt• Relentless • Fanta • 5 Alive• Oasis

Coca-Cola’s competitors

• Cokes main competitor is Pepsi

Coca- Cocaine Pemberton called for five ounces of coca leaf per gallon of syrup, a significant dose; in 1891, Candler claimed his formula (altered extensively from Pemberton's original) contained only a tenth of this amount. Coca-Cola once contained an estimated nine milligrams of cocaine per glass. In 1903, it was removed.

Other Cokes

• Cherry – 1985• Coke with lemon -2001 until 2005• Coke with Lime – 2005• Vanilla – 2002 until 2005

Annual Turnover

• In 2010 Coca-Cola turned over $35.119 Billion

Coke by numbers

• Coke only sold 9 bottles of coke in their first year

• 92,800 worldwide employees

Does a glass of coke make a tooth dissolve in a glass of coke over night?

This is a popular urban legend, and totally untrue. Coca Cola will not ‑dissolve teeth or meat overnight. There is a small amount of edible acid present in many foods, including fruit juices, buttermilk and soft drinks such as Coca Cola, but these foods are not acidic enough to ‑harm your body tissues - in fact, your own natural stomach acid is more acidic. These stories continue to spring up and get recycled because each new generation finds them hard to ignore, but they simply are not true.