In 1943, a Pan Am Airline chef snuck whiskey into passengers' coffee to warm them up on a winter flight. When asked what kind of coffee they were being served, he improvised "Irish Coffee," creating the now-famous cocktail.
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Nearly half of the entire world's adult population has never drunk alcohol.
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One or two alcohol drinks a day can be anti-inflammatory.
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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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Men are twice as likely to be binge drinkers than women.
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In outer space there exists a gigantic cloud of alcohol which can be used to produce 400 trillion trillion pints of beer.
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The purpose of the indentation at the bottom of a wine bottle is to strengthen the structure of the bottle.
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