The Reality Reports

What Is The Mandela Effect: The Mandela Effect describes a strange situation where many people share the same false memory about an event that never actually occurred.  This phenomenon gets its name from Nelson Mandela, the famous South African leader.  Thousands of people clearly remember him dying in prison during the 1980s, but Mandela actually lived until 2013 and became South Africa's president after his release.

A Sparkling Beginning: How Schweppes Was Born Schweppes is the oldest soda in the world, and its story starts in 1783 in Geneva, Switzerland.  The founder, Johann Jacob Schweppe, was a German watchmaker and amateur scientist who became fascinated by the science of carbonation.  Inspired by the work of English chemist Joseph Priestley, who discovered how to infuse water with carbon dioxide to make it fizzy, Schweppe developed a way to produce carbonated mineral water on a commercial scale.  He called this process the “Geneva System” and soon started selling his bottled sparkling water to the public.