Birthdate: July 8, 1831
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Knoxville, Georgia, United States
Died: August 16, 1888
John Stith Pemberton, an American pharmacist and Confederate States Army veteran, invented Coca-Cola in 1886. He sold the rights to the beverage before passing away in 1888. Suffering from a sabre wound from the Battle of Columbus, Pemberton struggled with chronic pain and morphine addiction. In his efforts to combat addiction, he experimented with painkillers and toxins, leading to the creation of an earlier beverage containing alcohol and cocaine, which eventually evolved into Coca-Cola.
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