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TIL In 1990 the USSR and PepsiCo made a deal to exchange Pepsi syrup for vodka and a small fleet of Soviet warships including 17 submarines, a frigate, a cruiser and a destroyer. Until PepsiCo sold the ships to Sweden a few days later for scrap, Pepsi was the 6th largest navy in the world

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