Interesting Facts - Page 140

The Caesar Salad was invented in Tijuana, Mexico.

The average American woman weighs nearly 20 pounds more than the average South Korean man.

People living on the Mani peninsula in Greece retained their worship of the ancient Greek gods until the 800s A.D., surviving more than 400 years of official persecution against polytheism.

Coca-Cola used to contain cocaine. But it wasn't much. The original recipe had about 9 milligrams of cocaine per glass. For comparison, a typical cocaine addict consumes about 900 milligrams per day. By 1902, the Coca-Cola formula was changed so that only minuscule traces of cocaine remained, and in 1930 these traces were eliminated entirely.

Before the addictive nature of cocaine was well understood, Sigmund Freud enthusiastically advocated cocaine for the treatment of depression, pain, nasal congestion, and even morphine addiction.