Al Capone earned $105m per year from alcohol and rackets during the Prohibition era. Today, this would be equivalent to $1.4b per year.
7
When you get blackout drunk, you don't actually forget anything; your brain wasn't "recording" in the first place.
23
In the 1950s, the US government placed beer next to an atomic bomb blast to determine if it was still drinkable. The result: in the event of a nuclear war, beer is safe to drink!
16
In outer space there exists a gigantic cloud of alcohol which can be used to produce 400 trillion trillion pints of beer.
31
Nearly half of the entire world's adult population has never drunk alcohol.
12
Black Friday in the UK is the Friday before Christmas. Instead of shopping, many people get very drunk!
10
The world record for alcohol consumption is by Andre the Giant, who drank 156 beers in one sitting (over 73 liters/16 gallons).
23