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At any given time, 0.7% of the world is drunk. So 50 million people are drunk right now.
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Steven Petrosino of New Cumberland, Pennsylvania downed 1 liter of beer or 33 ounces in a chilly 1.3 seconds in 1977 which made him a World Beer Chugging Champion according to the Guinness Book of World Records.
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In 1814, almost 400,000 gallons of beer flooded several streets in London after a huge vat ruptured in the parish of St. Giles.
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The world´s strongest beer is Brewmeister´s Snake Venom“. While regular beer usually have about 5% ABV, this Scottish killer has a stomach-burning 67,5% ABV.
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Cenosillicaphobia is the fear of an empty beer glass.
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Amsterdam pays alcoholics in beer to clean streets: 5 cans of beer for a day’s work, plus €10 and tobacco.
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Slugs like beer.
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Stanford researchers found that beer bubbles create a gravity-defying loop. Bubbles head up in the center where frictional drag from the glass is less and down on the outside as the top gets crowded.
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The Ancient Egyptians built the pyramids under the influence. According to Patrick McGovern, an archaeologist from the University of Pennsylvania, workers at Giza received about four liters of beer a day.
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Snow is the name of a beer brewed for the Chinese market, and it’s cheap: 49 cents for a can, according to Quartz.
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All it takes to chill a beer is ice and salt in a bowl, and stirring it.
Sources:
#1: http://wc.arizona.edu/papers/96/115/01_6.html
#2 – #9: https://www.uselessdaily.com/food/useless-trivia-19-interesting-facts-about-beer/#ixzz5P6pwD2a4
#10: qz.com
#11: Thrillist