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 George W. Bush was 30 years old, he was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol.
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In outer space there exists a gigantic cloud of alcohol which can be used to produce 400 trillion trillion pints of beer.
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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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Black Friday in the UK is the Friday before Christmas. Instead of shopping, many people get very drunk!
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Milkshakes were originally alcoholic.
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After Germany surrendered in WW2, people in Moscow partied until the entire city actually ran out of vodka.
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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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