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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When you get blackout drunk, you don't actually forget anything; your brain wasn't "recording" in the first place.
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The world's oldest known recipe is for beer.
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Staying awake for 17 hours is the same for your body as drinking 2 glasses of wine.
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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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In Scotland it is illegal to be a drunk in possession of a cow.
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