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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As part of an advertising campaign, Molson, a Canadian beer company, strategically placed 'beer fridges' around Europe that only Canadian passports could unlock.
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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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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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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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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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