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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All 13 minerals necessary for human life can be found in alcohol beverages.
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Tabasco sauce is aged in barrels previously used for Jack Daniel's Tennessee Whiskey.
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In the 1950s, the US government placed beer next to an atomic bomb blast to determine if it was still drinkable. The result: in the event of a nuclear war, beer is safe to drink!
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Orange juice naturally contains a small amount of alcohol.
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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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People with light eye colors (like blue, green or grey) have a higher alcohol tolerance.
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Absinthe is a high volume alcoholic drink (up to 89.9% in the UK) which contains a hallucinogenic ingredient called Wormwood and is banned in the United States.
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