Two of Mr Coke's brothers and a sister have been shot dead over the years, either by gangland killers or in shoot-outs with police.

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In three hours I consumed: eight glasses of water, two cans of Coke Zero, a large strawberry and protein powder smoothie, and a 20 oz. bottle of Gatorade.

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McDermott paid his bar and kitchen tab, which consisted of two hot dogs and a Coke, a kitchen receipt shows.

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Other outlandish features of this Domino's, NASCAR, and Coke-branded monstrosity include two swiveling LCD screens, DVD player, Xbox (OG, not 360), MP3 player, XM radio with one year of service, Nextel cellphone, mini-fridge, and two embedded Domino's HeatWave bags.

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Among the qualifying conditions announced earlier this month is the bizarrely precise one that any bidder must have produced at least 1m tonnes of coke and 2m tonnes of rolled steel in Ukraine for the past three years, two of them profitably.

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She notes that Coke kept the images, installed in 2007, even after it changed world-wide ad campaigns two years later.

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