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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Staying awake for 17 hours is the same for your body as drinking 2 glasses of wine.
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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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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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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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Milkshakes were originally alcoholic.
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