7 Secrets Only Two Living People Know (For Some Reason)

Below are secrets that only two people on planet Earth know. Sometimes they have very good reasons to keep these secrets so fiercely. Other times, not so much

The Formula for Coca-Cola

It's no surprise that one of most profitable companies ever would want to keep their formula a secret. Yet, the formula is so fiercely protected that the company even pulled out of India in the 1970s because they would have been legally required to divulge their ingredient list to their government.

Only two Coke executives know it. Urban legend says they each only know half, but that's false--that part was invented for an old ad campaign.

KFC's 11 Herbs and Spices

The secret KFC recipe dates back to the 1930s when Harland Sanders served chicken to people who stopped at his gas station in North Corbin, Kentucky. It was an amazing success.
As with Coke, only two executives have access to the recipe for KFC's 11 herbs and spices. Man, wouldn't it be weird if it was the same two guys?
The recipe is at KFC's headquarters. But unless you are Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible, you have no chance of getting it.  ;)

The Farmer's Almanac Weather Formula

 

The Farmer's Almanac has interesting facts, stories, light humor, charming woodcuts and much, much more. Hell, we don't need to tell you. You probably own several copies already.

Farmer's Almanac editor Sandi Duncan and an anonymous meteorologist only know about this.
As crazy as it seems, they keep it secret for good reason.

The formula is kept locked in a black box somewhere in the Almanac's headquarters in New Hampshire

How Do Sea Monkeys Work?

 

If you ever saw the back pages of a comic book growing up, you know what Sea Monkeys are. For generations kids around the world have experienced the profound disappointment of ordering Sea Monkeys, dumping the dried powder into water and watching the tiny things squiggle around, doing nothing interesting.
They still sell what you, as a jaded adult, now know are nothing more than freeze dried brine shrimp.
Until his death in 2003, only Harlod von Braunhut and his wife, Yolanda knew about this.
No matter how many times he changed the formula to Sea Monkeys, or how huge the operation grew (to the tune of tens of millions of dollars a year) Braunhut never told anyone but his second wife about it.
Not even his most trusted associates at his company were told, no matter how many times they asked. Harold was very, very good at keeping secrets.

The Location of Lena Blackburne's Baseball Rubbing Mud

 

A brand new baseball just out of the box is slippery; so much so that a pitcher has no control when throwing one unless it's dirtied up a bit first. So, an umpire spends a lot of his time before a game rubbing mud into dozens of balls. But not just any mud works.

Mud business owner Jim Bintliff and his wife know about this.

The location of the mud has been a closely guarded secret since Blackburne stumbled upon the source in the 1930s. All that is known is that it is found on a tributary of the Delaware River, somewhere near Palmyra, New Jersey.

The Location of Oliver Cromwell's Head

 

 

Oliver Cromwell-an Englishman from the 1600s who pretty much singlehandedly ended the monarchy and took over ruling the country himself. After he died of natural causes and the monarchy was restored, King Charles II ordered his body dug up so it could be "killed" again.
After hanging from a scaffold for over 12 hours (hey, if you are going to kill someone who's already dead you need to put in the extra effort) the body was cut down and the head placed on a spike. Eventually it fell off and was passed around museums and private collectors. Yes, apparently there are collectors of decapitated heads. Their conventions must be awesome.
When the last owner, who sometimes showed the head to school children, died in 1957, his son decided not to continue the illustrious family tradition of being a head collecting weirdo. He tried to give it a proper burial, but it took him over three years to find a place that would accept it.
Two professors at Cambridge University's Sidney Sussex college know about this.

The Subject of "You're So Vain"

 

Carly Simon's "You're so Vain" is one hell of a revenge song.
The list of people it is rumored to be about is at least a dozen men long, including such luminaries as James Taylor, Mick Jagger, Kris Kristofferson and Warren Beatty. Whoever the guy is, he did Carly Simon bad, and worse for him it's now considered the 72nd best song of all time.

Carly Simon and Dick Ebersol knows about this.