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Cheaters Come Up With The Darnedest Ideas

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10:00AM December 19, 2011 | Nick Broughall

I know it’s a bit of a cliche, but if the kids who came up with the idea of cheating in exams by photoshopping answers onto a Coke label put the same amount of thought into study, they probably wouldn’t need to cheat. More »

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Cars Powered With Coke And Mentos Battle For Mileage Supremacy

9:45AM December 16, 2011 | Jesus Diaz

Car A is powered by 108 bottles of Coke Zero and 648 Mentos mints. Car B is powered by just 54 bottles of Coke Zero and 324 Mentos mints. Which car do you think would win this race? More »

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How Long Does It Take For Coke To Go Flat?

11:00AM July 23, 2011 | Casey Chan

There’s few things worse than a glass of flat Coke. OH WAIT, a glass of Pepsi is far worse. But anyway! An incredibly bored person wanted to find out exactly when Coke went flat so he timed it. More »

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Inside The Making Of An Old Timey Neon Sign

10:20AM June 25, 2011 | Michael Zhao

Nowadays, a public display ad is just an image on a giant screen, but this certainly wasn’t the case 60 years ago. Unlike their famous soda, Coke’s recipe for neon signs is no secret: hard work and lots of it. More »

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How To Turn A Glass Coke Bottle Into An Adorable Plant Waterer

10:38PM June 10, 2011 | Brian Barrett

The narration is husky and the instructions sound: why toss that glass Coke bottle into the trash (or recycling bin!), when you’re a few modifications away from a retro-tastic plant waterer? Beats an Aqua Globe, anyway. More »

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Diet Coke + Mentos + Stupid = Perfection

6:20AM May 18, 2011 | Brian Barrett

Tossing Mentos into Diet Coke is one of the oldest tricks in the MEGA CARBONATION EXPLOSION book, one you’ve seen around here once or twice. But those were major-scale productions. This? This is one man, one hilariously inept projectile. More »

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Coke’s Classic Bottles Reissued For 125th Birthday

9:40PM May 12, 2011 | Kat Hannaford

Who here recognises any of the Coke bottles in that rack? We should all be familiar with the far-right one, which has been in production since 1916, but do you recognise the other three, which were on shelves from 1899? More »

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Every Last Inch Of Coke’s New Shelves Can Be Recycled

4:40AM April 20, 2011 | Kat Hannaford

Later this year, you might spot a new addition to your local grocery store – these recycled Coca-Cola shelves, which are the first shelves ever to be recycled 100 per cent. More »

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This Daft Punk Coke Better Not Taste Funky

6:20AM February 24, 2011 | Brian Barrett

According to Hypebeast, Coke and Daft Punk are uniting in the form of these gold and silver Daft Coke bottles. The shiny sodas will be distributed at the kinds of clubs you don’t get into starting this March, and will also be distributed through colette in Paris. More »

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Coca-Cola’s Secret Recipe Finally Revealed

8:00AM February 16, 2011 | Casey Chan

The secret recipe of Coke has been hidden and locked down for 125 years. But apparently, not anymore. This American Life says they’ve found the ingredients that make up the delicious bubbly cola and have revealed it to our delight. More »