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    Tabasco sauce is aged in barrels previously used for Jack Daniel's Tennessee Whiskey.
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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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    Amazing Plane Theft
    Amazing Plane Theft
    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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    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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    In Scotland it is illegal to be a drunk in possession of a cow.
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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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    When you get blackout drunk, you don't actually forget anything; your brain wasn't "recording" in the first place.
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    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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