You have all heard of water and Coca-cola, and the chances are that you have tried them both. They have both been around for a long time, but how much do you really know about these famous beverages?

Let's start with the oldest first, water:

• In 37% of Americans, the thirst mechanism is so weak that it is often mistaken for hunger.
• Even mild dehydration will slow down one's metabolism as much as 3%.
• One glass of water shut down midnight hunger pangs for almost 100% of the dieters studied in a University of Washington study.
• Lack of water is the number 1 trigger of daytime fatigue.
• Preliminary research indicates that eight to ten glasses of water per day could significantly ease back and joint pain for up to 70% of sufferers.
• A mere 2% drop in body water can trigger fuzzy short-tem memory, trouble with basic maths, and difficulty focusing on the computer screen or on a printed page.
• Drinking five glasses of water daily decreases the risk of colon cancer by 45%, plus it can slash the risk of breast cancer by 79%, and one is 50% less likely to develop bladder cancer.

Additional: drinking as much water as suggested above will also increase body strength, due to the large amount of execise gained from visiting the toilet every 15 minutes.

And now onto Coke:

• In many states of the USA, the highway patrol carries two gallons of Coke in the truck to remove blood from the road surface after a car accident.
• You can puta T-bone steak in a bowl of Coke, and it will be gone in two days.
• To clean a toilet, pour a can of Coke into the toilet bowl, and let "the real thing" sit for an hour.
• To remove rust spots from chrome car bumpers, rub the bumper with a crumpled up piece of aluminium foil dipped in Coke.
• To clean corrosion from car battery terminals, pour a can of Coke over the terminals to bubble away the corrosion.
• To remove grease from clothes, empty a can of coke into a load of greasy clothes, add detergent, and run through a regular cycle.
• Coke can be used to clean road haze from your car windshield.
• The active incredient in Coke is phosphoric acid. It's pH is 2.8 (strongly acidic). It will disolve a nail in about four days.
• To carry Coca-Cola syrup (the concentrate), the commercial truck must use the hazardous material signs reserved for highly corrosive materials.
• The distibutors of Coke have been using to clean the engines of their trucks for about 2 years.
• If you put a worm in a can of Coke, it will dissolve in two hours.

Disclamer: I have absolutly no idea how accurate the above statements are. They are here, because I thought that they were interesting and should be shared. Please don't sue me if you suffer any losses due to the inaccuracy of my writings.

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