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Beer Used to Be Classed as a Soft Drink in Russia

In 2011, Russia acknowledged beer as an alcoholic beverage. Before then, any drink under 10% volume was considered a soft drink.

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In 1956, for a bet whilst drunk, Thomas Fitzpatrick stole a small plane from New Jersey and then landed it perfectly on a narrow Manhattan street in front of the bar he had been drinking at. Then, two years later, he did it again after a man didn’t believe he had done it the first time.

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Wife-Carrying Championship in Finland Gives Winners Wife's Weight in Beer

There's a wife-carrying championship that takes place in Finland every year where the winner receives his wife's weight in beer.

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Drinking banana milkshake is a perfect cure for hangover.

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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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There's a new vaccine for alcoholism that gives drinkers an immediate and harsh hangover, even if they drink a small amount of booze.

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Placing alcohol on a scorpion's back will make it go crazy and fatally sting itself.

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