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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It's illegal to drink beer out of a bucket while you're sitting on a curb in St. Louis!
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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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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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When George W. Bush was 30 years old, he was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol.
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Men are twice as likely to be binge drinkers than women.
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Milkshakes were originally alcoholic.
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