You may have heard this story before, and it's true: The very first Coca-Cola products contained cocaine — but only around 9 milligrams per glass. The drug was touted at the time as a substitute ...

Pemberton's bookkeeper, Frank Mason Robinson, decided that Coca-Cola's logo should be written in the Spencerian script, which accountants used, because it would differentiate it from its competitors.

Beverage giants Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO) and PepsiCo (NASDAQ: PEP) have been under pressure over the past year, and both have fallen by around 14% from their 52-week highs. Given the overlapping ...