Al Capone earned $105m per year from alcohol and rackets during the Prohibition era. Today, this would be equivalent to $1.4b per year.
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After Germany surrendered in WW2, people in Moscow partied until the entire city actually ran out of vodka.
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Drinking banana milkshake is a perfect cure for hangover.
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There's a new vaccine for alcoholism that gives drinkers an immediate and harsh hangover, even if they drink a small amount of booze.
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When you get blackout drunk, you don't actually forget anything; your brain wasn't "recording" in the first place.
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White wine gets darker as it ages while red wine gets lighter.
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Scientist Niels Bohr was “given a house next door to the Carlsberg brewing company, and had a pipeline running from the brewery into the house so that he could have a never-ending supply of fresh beer on tap”.
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