Things that the Corporations dont want you to Know!

[KandyKid]

Not taking credit for these finds, they are probably posted all over the net, but here goes..

Coca-Cola Facts

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Just when you thought you knew everything....
To clean a toilet: Pour a can of Coca-Cola into the toilet bowl. Let the "real thing" sit for one hour, then flush clean. The citric acid in Coke removes stains from vitreous china.

To remove rust spots from chrome car bumpers: Rub the bumper with a crumpled-up piece of Reynolds Wrap aluminum foil dipped in Coca-Cola.

To clean corrosion from car battery terminals: Pour a can of Coca-Cola over the terminals to bubble away the corrosion.

To loosen a rusted bolt: Applying a cloth soaked in Coca-Cola to the rusted bolt for several minutes.

To bake a moist ham: Empty a can of Coca-Cola into the baking pan; wrap the ham in aluminum foil, and bake. Thirty minutes before the ham is finished, remove the foil, allowing the drippings to mix with the Coke for a sumptuous brown gravy.

To remove grease from clothes: Empty a can of Coke into a load of greasy clothes, add detergent, And run through a regular cycle. The Coca-Cola will help loosen grease stains.

It will also clean road haze from your windshield.

Pour a can on your oil spills in the drive way, it will loosen them up and hose it down.

AND WE DRINK THIS STUFF!

(FYI... the active ingredient in coke is phosphoric acid. its pH is 2.8. it will dissolve a nail in about 4 days. The distributors of coke have been using it to clean the engines of their trucks for about 20 years!)

- Coca Cola reportedly uses small amounts of the raw "Coke" syrup to clean grime from the engines on their delivery trucks. Apparently, it is corrosive enough to take off the dirt but doesn't do "much damage" to the engines themselves.

- Dasani bottled water, which is owned by Coca Cola, contains a significant amount of sodium. Sodium is salt. Salt makes you thirsty. Think about that one for a minute.

- The McDonald's Corporation originally chose red and yellow as their company colors because the first colors that babies see as they develop are... you guessed it... red and yellow. Apparently, company executives wanted to groom people from birth to identify red and yellow with the McDonald's name.

- You know the little chopped up onions that you get on hamburgers and cheeseburgers at McDonald's? Those are rehydrated. Before you add water to them, they basically look like sand in a bag. If you use water that is too warm or too cold, one of the preservatives in the onions reacts to the temperature and the whole batch turns bright pink.

- Employees at McDonald's almost never throw product out once it's cooked. They aren't supposed to keep it in the cabinet for longer than a few minutes. (15 to 20 at most.) Guess what? If you visit the restaurant outside of rush hours, there's a good chance that your hamburger patties and chicken nuggets have been sitting there for upwards of two hours in a low-heat holding container!

- Several common household objects, such as the lightbulb and the microwave, were originally designed to last forever. (Edison's lightbulb, in fact, is still capable of burning. It is held at the Smithsonian.) The process of altering an original design so that the product MUST be renewed is called "planned obsolesence".

- By the year 2030, we will have used up almost all of our copper reserve producing electrical wiring. At that point, some speculate that the government will be forced to circulate pennies minted before the 1970s out of the economy so that they can be melted down and cleaned so that the copper can be reused.

[esoter1c]

No One On Fnk Cares They Will Go Pop Some E N Down 20 Red Bulls With Vodka, You Seriously Think Ne1 Reads A Thread More Than 2 Sentences Long ?

[veN]

I read it all...

Interesting, v.interesting. I knew a lot of that about Coca-Cola tho.

[wum]

interesting factoid about the light bulbs.

the pharmaceuticals industry is no different, unfortunately.

[rawb]

a shitty forward email i can't hit delete on, fuck.

[gnosis]

^ahh, shaddap, Rawb!
'twas interesting!

Another tidbit?
Aluminum poisoning has been shown to be mistaken for Alzheimer's Disease.

Frosty
(Don't smoke your drugs out of pop cans, kids!)

[acidic_liquid]

That was interesting.

I've never gotten that as a forward email. I get shitty ass ones about people with fatal diseases, pick up lines, or something else that's stupid and most likely untrue.

Damn friends.

[Sue Bitch]

I can only imagine if they have actually come up with a cure for asthma but want us to suffer and pay more *dame asthma grrrrr*

[wum]

Originally Posted by Sue Bitch

I can only imagine if they have actually come up with a cure for asthma but want us to suffer and pay more *dame asthma grrrrr*

they're called vaccines

[NinjaBoy]

Originally Posted by 3507321C

No One On Fnk Cares They Will Go Pop Some E N Down 20 Red Bulls With Vodka, You Seriously Think Ne1 Reads A Thread More Than 2 Sentences Long ?

the "everyone on fnk is a drug addict moron, except me" thing is a little overdone at this point.

[Joanne]

Originally Posted by KandyKid

(FYI... the active ingredient in coke is phosphoric acid. its pH is 2.8. it will dissolve a nail in about 4 days. The distributors of coke have been using it to clean the engines of their trucks for about 20 years!)

apple juice, lemons and orange juice have about the same ph (if not lower). when you drink that stuff, it's not like it's sitting in your teeth for an hour. your saliva should help wash that stuff down from your mouth anyway.

I'd be worried more about it's lack of nutritional and sugar content than it's acidity.

Originally Posted by KandyKid

- Dasani bottled water, which is owned by Coca Cola, contains a significant amount of sodium. Sodium is salt. Salt makes you thirsty. Think about that one for a minute.

so does gatorade.

and guess what, isotonic IV's they use at the hospital to prevent a person from dehydration are 0.9% normal saline.

and the amount of sodium there is in that bottle of water is not enough to make someone even slightly dehydrated.

and also, sodium isn't salt. salt is sodium chloride... :)

Originally Posted by wum

they're called vaccines

triggers for asthma are so diverse, I don't think they can cure all asthma with just vaccines...

--Joanne :P

[sidekick]

Originally Posted by rawb

a shitty forward email i can't hit delete on, fuck.

replying to this thread, that you didn't even have to read, just took more energy than hitting a delete button on your email would.

[cheebus420]

Fun and informative. Good stuff.

[rawb]

Originally Posted by Sidekick

replying to this thread, that you didn't even have to read, just took more energy than hitting a delete button on your email would.

hey don't read this reply or think about it, thanks.

[cubed]

Originally Posted by KandyKid

To loosen a rusted bolt: Applying a cloth soaked in Coca-Cola to the rusted bolt for several minutes.

proved to be false on myth busters.

To remove grease from clothes: Empty a can of Coke into a load of greasy clothes, add detergent, And run through a regular cycle. The Coca-Cola will help loosen grease stains.

proved to be false on myth busters.

It will also clean road haze from your windshield.

proved to be false on myth busters.

Pour a can on your oil spills in the drive way, it will loosen them up and hose it down.

proved to be false on myth busters.

(FYI... the active ingredient in coke is phosphoric acid. its pH is 2.8. it will dissolve a nail in about 4 days. The distributors of coke have been using it to clean the engines of their trucks for about 20 years!)

proved to be false on myth busters, although it does contain trace amounts of phosphoric acid.

- Coca Cola reportedly uses small amounts of the raw "Coke" syrup to clean grime from the engines on their delivery trucks. Apparently, it is corrosive enough to take off the dirt but doesn't do "much damage" to the engines themselves.

also proved to be false on myth busters.

don't believe the hype.

[Chewy]

Originally Posted by 3507321C

No One On Fnk Cares They Will Go Pop Some E N Down 20 Red Bulls With Vodka, You Seriously Think Ne1 Reads A Thread More Than 2 Sentences Long ?

i read it.. its not that hard if you have even a little intelligence.

[Chewy]

mythbusters are my heros.. those guys do crazy shit

[The_acidhouse]

Carbolic acid is common to all carbonated drinks. I believe all pop drinks could therefore be used as a cleaning product

[Varney Rae]

Im glad I gave up pop a year ago! Pop also makes you look bigger than you are because the carbonation bloats your stomach, if anything has gotten me to stop drinking the stuff its that!

[Grapes]

Dasani bottled water, which is owned by Coca Cola, contains a significant amount of sodium. Sodium is salt. Salt makes you thirsty. Think about that one for a minute.

Thinking.....

thinking...........

(one minute passes)...

I DON'T GET IT

And btw, anyone who pours a can of coke in their laundry deserves whatever they get.

[sidekick]

Originally Posted by rawb

hey don't read this reply or think about it, thanks.

done!

wait...ah, damnit.

[stephen_c]

Originally Posted by varn

Im glad I gave up pop a year ago! Pop also makes you look bigger than you are because the carbonation bloats your stomach, if anything has gotten me to stop drinking the stuff its that!

learn how to burp :-)

[sidekick]

Originally Posted by varn

Im glad I gave up pop a year ago! Pop also makes you look bigger than you are because the carbonation bloats your stomach, if anything has gotten me to stop drinking the stuff its that!

i heard eating food does the same thing!

[rawb]

acid in pop < acid in orange juice
use your head people

[crookedking]

Originally Posted by 3507321C

No One On Fnk Cares They Will Go Pop Some E N Down 20 Red Bulls With Vodka, You Seriously Think Ne1 Reads A Thread More Than 2 Sentences Long ?

lol, he's right. i just looked at that long list and said to myself, "awww fuck it! i chain smoke too!"