In 1886, John Pemberton, a druggist in  AtlantarecipecocaadvertisedUnitedEuropepermissionworld, Georgia, made a brown syrup by mixing  recipeAtlantacocaUnitedadvertisedworldpermissionEurope leaves and cola nuts. Pemberton sold the syrup in his drugstore as a medicine to cure all kinds of problems. Pemberton called his all-purpose medicine "Coca-Cola."
When few people bought Coca-Cola, Pemberton sold the  cocaAtlantaEuropeworldUnitedadvertisedpermissionrecipe to another druggist, Asa Candler. Candler decided to sell Coca-Cola as a soda-fountain drink instead of a medicine. At the soda fountains in drugstores, the syrup was mixed with soda water to make the drink Coca-Cola. Candler  AtlantaworldpermissionUnitedEuropecocaadvertisedrecipe a lot and sold his syrup to many drugstores. Soon everyone was going to soda fountains and asking for Coca-Cola.
Candler saw no reason for putting Coca-Cola into bottles, but two businessmen thought this would be a good idea. They got  permissioncocaEuropeworldrecipeadvertisedAtlantaUnited from Candler, and before long they became millionaires.
As of 1903, coca leaves were no longer used in Coca-Cola. The exact ingredients used and their quantities are not known—the Coca-Cola Company keeps it a secret.
World War I helped make Coca-Cola popular outside the  recipeworldAtlantaEuropeadvertisedUnitedpermissioncoca States. The Coca-Cola Company sent free bottles of the drink to U.S. soldiers fighting in  advertisedcocarecipeUnitedAtlantaEuropeworldpermission. Coca-Cola became very popular with the soldiers — so popular that the U.S. Army asked the company to start ten factories in Europe. After the war, these factories continued to make Coca-Cola. Today, there are Coca-Cola factories around the  advertisedworldpermissioncocaAtlantarecipeEuropeUnited.