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Judith Butlerian Jihad@xanindigo.bsky.social |
Everyone knows Coca-Cola used to contain cocaine, but people don't talk as much about how 7 Up used to contain lithium as a mood stabiliser.
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@regalpastry.bsky.social
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7-Up. I have seen old b/w photos of people passed out in street gutters with 7 up. The picture is from back in the 1920s or so.
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Ellin Stein
@ellinst.bsky.social
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Shouldn't it have been called 7 Up and Down?
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Daniel Reeders
@engagedpractx.bsky.social
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Sorry, bipolar nerd here... lithium's use as a mood stabiliser wasn't discovered til 1949.
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Michael R Lambert
@mrl53.bsky.social
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Its been 40 years or more since my last one.
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Michael R Lambert
@mrl53.bsky.social
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7&7
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Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein
@deepcuts.bsky.social
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Coca-Cola syrup used to be mixed with lithium water at the lithia springs in Georgia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithia_...
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Cacao Byproduct
@cacaobyproduct.bsky.social
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Wait this isn’t a joke?
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Tiffany Turrill
@tiffanyturrill.bsky.social
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Huh i guess this explains why my mom only gave it to the kids when we were hella sick instead of like. water lol
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Alex F
@geddyleeroth80.bsky.social
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🎵 I’m so happy cause today I learned this fact about 7 Up .🎵
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Tilde Sun Shines Nellie ⛅🦉☕️
@theowlwagon.bsky.social
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Possibly why it was our family's go-to beverage whenever we were ailing/nauseous/at risk of dehydration. Mom would point to the slogan on the bottle: "You like it. It likes you!" and nod sagely.
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P Maramba
@pmwearinghats.bsky.social
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Always thought “Up” was just puffery. (Now I’m wondering about Dr. Pepper.)
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Dom G 💖🥰💘
@domg.bsky.social
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I guess that's where the "Up" comes from
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Fat Apollo
@fatapollo.bsky.social
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Dr Pepper was Straightedge
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Josh Pollock 🌱🌵🌲
@josh412.com
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Really pisses me off that they made me swallow that gross shit in a pill form, when I could have had it as a refreshing carbonated beverage.
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Zenodotus
@zenodotus.bsky.social
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My wife: "WTF, soda was just nothing but hardcore drugs back in the day!"
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WildGorillaMan
@wildgorillaman.bsky.social
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Holy shit, TIL
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Audley: leftover wizard
@audleyzdarke.bsky.social
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PUT DRUGS BACK IN SODA
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SilkyTao 🏳️⚧️
@silkytao.bsky.social
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Litteral battery acid
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🕹️🍕 DUSTYtwig 🏳️🌈🕹️
@twigboom.bsky.social
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Chat is this real? is this canon? will it make you go away?
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acerbic otter is HOT (NO not like THAT)
@acerbicotter.bsky.social
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there was a place in Texas called Mineral Wells that had lithiated water, and they sometimes called it "crazy water" on the claim that a troubled woman had drunk it and experienced some relief. They also sold "crazy crystals" (I don't know made of what) that were a laxative
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Sage 🏳️⚧️
@trans.bsky.social
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i wonder if lithium makes lemon lime soda taste better
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artisanrox
@artisanrox.bsky.social
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this whole conversation is full of neat TIL stuff
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Vinchenzo the Jackal
@vinchenzojackal.bsky.social
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There was so much medical quackery back then because pseudoscience cults by religious health diet and wellness groups promoted consuming literal poison that with their being no laws things were horrifically bad back in the industrial eras. There was once hipster food snacks with cyanide in it...
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si oppington
@stillwellgray.ca
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Sabermane
@homelessrobot.bsky.social
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I would like lithium Soda back. Please.
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Accountabilabuddy
@accountabilabuddy.bsky.social
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Bring back 7 Up Classic! With lemon and lime and lithium! In fact, never mind the lemon and the lime! I'll just have carbonated lithium!
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Barry Dorrans
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Oh you’re going to be so excited by The Valley of the Mad and the Well of the Insane in Kerry, Ireland.
Legends of kings and mad Sweeny wandering till they found it and drank the water … the water which scientists discovered had a high, natural lithium content.
www.irishtimes.com/news/health/...
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Sebastian Hassinger
@sebastian.bsky.social
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7 is the atomic mass of lithium…
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fire at static valley
@atalantafugiens.fursona.club
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This would fix me
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Father John Chungus
@sorocchungus.bsky.social
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Wait wait go back
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Death_by_Democracy 🇵🇸 🇾🇪 🇷🇺 🇨🇳 🍉
@deathbydemocracy.bsky.social
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*not sure if parody, or not...*
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Matt Van Horn
@mattvanhorn.bsky.social
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We need to bring both of those recipes back.
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🇱🇷kwh🇺🇸
@kwh561.bsky.social
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Thats where the up comes from
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RAALLEN
@raallen86.bsky.social
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7-mid
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bree (total content)
@goose.ski
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lmfao this is a new one for me! had no idea
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Kalle Katt
@kallekatt.bsky.social
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LITHIUM? LIKE NIRVANA?
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Captain stuffmcbluer (Angry Block Era)
@stuffmcbluer.bsky.social
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I wish I could trink an old fashioned 7up everyday before work so I could forget the existential dread of end stage capitalism
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Sadatay_Allday 👾🥞
@sadatayallday.bsky.social
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I’m tired of anyone who wasn’t alive in 1899 telling me they had cocaine in their cola growing up “Yo man, quit lying! They took the coke out of your pop 57 years before you were born!”
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@michaelkz.bsky.social
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They could sell it again, but regulated like weed rather than alcohol.
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Colon Musk, CEO of GaceX
@themilfmag.net
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lithyum😋
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Rain Dog
@brushwolf.bsky.social
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I think someone told me “that’s why the up” during a discussion of Nirvana’s song “Lithium.”
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Dillon (6 Sided Games)
@6sidedgames.bsky.social
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Dr. Pepper used to be carbonated Prune Juice, if I'm remembering right.
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Bible Blackbelt
@estrusflask.bsky.social
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Need
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Rook Stone
@rookstone.bsky.social
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1948! 7-Up had lithium in it until NINETEEN FORTY EIGHT
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Judith Butlerian Jihad
@xanindigo.bsky.social
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(It used to be called 7 Up Lithiated Lemon Soda)
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HawkWolf (aka H. A. Kirsch)
@hakirsch.bsky.social
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See also: people taking low dose lithium because they read on the internet that locales with high lithium in drinking water had lower suicide rates (I’m not suggesting there isn’t a correlation or even causation - it’s just a related interesting thing!)
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Kellen Hoxworth
@kellenhoxworth.bsky.social
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Shiv Ramdas
@nameshiv.bsky.social
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THEY USED TO SELL LIQUID RADIUM AS SOFT DRINKS
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Matt
@mttlvn.bsky.social
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There's some (modern, not old-timey) evidence that naturally lithiated groundwater has measurable public health effects! Unfortunately, only some of them are positive effects.
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imfine
@imfinne.bsky.social
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must. eat. phone. battery.
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bettybarcode
@bettybarcode.bsky.social
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For those who want to read more:
www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/...
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ASMEH
@asmeh.bsky.social
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Fanta is pure sunlight (mood enhancer!) in a bottle!
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