Alcohol Facts

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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If an ant is drunk, a fellow comrade will carry him back to the nest to sleep off the alcohol.

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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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Diet Soda Mixed With Alcohol Gets You Drunk Faster

According to the Northern Kentucky University, mixing diet soda rather than normal soda with alcohol leads to faster intoxication.

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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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Andre the Giant had surgery, but the doctors couldn't figure out how much anaesthesia to use due to his size. Instead, they used Andre's claim that "it usually takes two liters of vodka just to make me feel warm inside" as their guide.

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Nearly half of the entire world's adult population has never drunk alcohol.

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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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