May 29 Facts, Fun Trivia and History |
May 29 History Highlights |
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A Brief History of Coca-Cola |
| When Coca-Cola first started out in 1886, it was just available as a fountain drink. In 1894, they started bottling the soda, through a bunch of regional bottlers. The first bottles were kind of roundish or flat and every regional COKE bottler was free to what kind of bottle to use. At that time, Coke had dozens of competitors back then that used similar names, similar bottles, and even used similar fonts to kind of leech on the Coca-Cola Brand. By 1914, there were 65 different OFFICIAL Coke bottlers around the country, and they had to agree with a plan to make Coca-Cola stand out from all the copycats. In 1915, The 65 BOTTLERS decided that they wanted, as they described “a bottle so distinct that you would recognize if by feel in the dark or lying broken on the ground.” They finally came up with the color of the glass, and the uniform size of the bottle – 6 1/2 ounces. The companies couldn’t compete with each other, so, by contract, the price of Coca-Cola from 1886 to 1959 was 6 1/2 ounces for 5 cents. The initial design was based on something called a Hobble Skirt. This was a style back then that allowed a woman’s curves to be accentuated, at least as much as the early 1900s would allow. Morticia Addams from the ADDAMS Family had one. They were hard to walk in, but it was the sexiest outfit a girl could wear in public in the 19teens. Since then, the bottle has gotten beggir, thinned down, been used in art, and even in machine design. 23 design changes in all. Today, there are 30-odd bottlers in the United States and hundreds more around the world. The price of a bottle of Coca-Cola stayed at a nickel until 1959. At the time, vending machines only took nickels, and before raising prices to a dime the president of Coca-Cola asked President Eisenhower to mint 7.5 cent coins to keep the increase reasonable. The request was denied, so Coke had a big jump in price to 10 cents in 1959. |
May 29 is… |
| Coq Au Vin Day Put a Pillow on Your Fridge Day |
May 29 Birthday Quotes |
“United we stand, divided we fall. Let us not split into factions which must destroy that union upon which our existence hangs.” “A society is in decay, final or transitional when common sense really becomes uncommon.” “… you hear the beginning of a melody, you should kind of know it’s going to lead down this path. It should start feeling like a friend, like familiar.” “No one party can fool all of the people all of the time; that’s why we have two parties.” “You never can expect what people’s reactions are going to be. You can only hope that everyone feels the way that you do.” “The truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticize the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.” “They say money doesn’t buy happiness. That phrase should end with ‘just kidding’.” |
May 29 Birthdays |
| 1736 – Patrick Henry, American lawyer and politician, 1st Governor of Virginia (died in 1799) 1874 – G.K. Chesterton, English essayist, poet, and playwright (died in 1936) 1903 – Bob Hope, English-American actor, singer, and producer (died in 2003) 1953 – Danny Elfman, American singer-songwriter 1955 – David Kirschner, American animator, producer, and author 1958 – Annette Bening, American actress 1975 – Daniel Tosh, American comedian 1975 – Mel B, English singer-songwriter 1989 – Riley Keough, American model |
May 29 History |
| 1453 Ottoman armies under Sultan Mehmed II Fatih captured Constantinople (now Istanbul) after a 53-day siege, commonly called The Fall of Constantinople. 1790 1848 1913 1914 1953 1954 1961 1965 1970 1971 1976 1979 1982 1999 2004 2015 2021 |
Today’s Random Trivia and Shower Thoughts |
| I still don’t know my exact foot measurement for all the times I would play with those metal foot measurement things at the shoe store as a kid. I want to see a wacky sitcom about a happy billionaire family with their young son and cooky butler, but it’s The Wayne family before they get murdered in the alley. Guardians of the Galaxy’s Rocket Raccoon’s name was inspired by the Beatles song Rocky Raccoon. “I shall call him Squishy and he shall be mine and he shall be my Squishy. Come on, Squishy Come on, little Squishy.” – Dory The Capital of Somalia is Mogadishu “A man’s got to know his limitations” – Harry Callahan #moviequotes There’s a 300-page book called ‘A Void’ that was written without ever using the letter “e”. It was originally written in French. The plastic used to make Legos is the same type of plastic used to make hard hats. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then an average minute of a film is worth 1,440,000 words. A man named Apa Sherpa has climbed Mt.Everest 21 times! Ashton Kutcher – Real Name: Christopher Kutcher The sounds made by the Brachiosaurs in Jurassic Park were a mix of whale and donkey sounds. |
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