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That Time Coca-Cola Spent $100 Million Intentionally Filling Cans With Water That Smelled Like Farts (2017x15)
Air date: Jan 17, 2017
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Conceived in early 1990, the MagiCan campaign was supposed to be the spearhead of a massive summer promotion the cola giant dubbed “Magic Summer ’90”. In a nutshell, the promotion involved hiding cash prizes ranging from $5-$500, as well as some other goodies such as coupons for free Coke, inside of 750,000 of the several hundred million cans of Coke that would be distributed during the summer.
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Sources:
http://www.snopes.com/horrors/poison/cokecan.asp
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=4uQCAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA14&ots=RokGXJI6Po&dq=magican+bomb+coke&pg=PA14&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=magican%20bomb%20coke&f=false
http://www.nytimes.com/1990/05/24/business/problems-pop-up-in-coke-promotion.html
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=MNol2mwLkI8C&pg=PA88&dq=magican+campaign+coke&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi4qODI-qDPAhUEtRoKHTF7AcMQ6AEIIDAA#v=onepage&q=magican%20campaign%20coke&f=false
http://www.coca-colacompany.com/stories/magican
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MagiCan
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