Ben Gilbert

That land was once owned by the Coca-Cola Company.

Same actually with the Atlanta Zoo.

Yes, very true.

And here's my last fun piece of trivia.

Around 1930, when they were really freaked out about

whether or not they'd have the ability to import the coca leaves to the United States to do the refining here.

They actually leased a secret cocaine refining facility in Peru.

Yes, in Peru.

They spun the factory up.

It was working.

The employee manufactured Coca-Cola there, and the extracted cocaine that came off as a byproduct, they had a big amount of it, and they were trying to be a good employee to the company.

And

earn some money with it.

So they sold 42 pounds of cocaine to a narcotics broker in Paris, and the sale proceeds went in the Coca-Cola bank account.

And so there's this crazy period where Coca-Cola's freaking out, like, we gotta hide this.

That's right.

And the Hoover administration would eventually grant that exception so they could refine the coca leaves here in the U.S., but that was just before.

No.

Really?

Was Tab saccharin sweetened?