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> [May 25, 1992] As part of PepsiCo's local promotion titled Number Fever, it was announced that the person who possessed the Pepsi bottle cap with the Number 349 is eligible to claim the 1 million peso prize. About 800,000 were eligible for the prize instead of an intended single winner. Several protests and bombings followed after Pepsi refused to award the 1 million prize to thousands of bottle cap holders and said that a computer glitch caused the incident. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_in_the_Philippines#Events

[2] https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=19930726&slug...



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