- Ohio state law prohibits getting a fish drunk.
- In Fairbanks, Alaska, it's illegal to feed a moose any alcohol beverage.
- It's illegal to sit on any street curb in St. Louis, Missouri, and drink beer from a bucket.
- The world's oldest known recipe is for beer.
- According to the famous writer H. L. Mencken, 17,864,392,788 different cocktails could be make from the ingredients in a well-stocked bar.
- Rum was issued daily to every sailor in the British Navy from 1651 until 1970.
- Men in the U.S. who drink alcohol receive about 7% higher wages than do abstainers.
- in Uruguay intoxication is a legal excuse for having an accident while driving.
- The more educated people are, the more likely they are to drink.
- One glass of milk can give a person a .02 blood alcohol concentration (BAC) on a Breathalyzer test. That’s enough in some states for persons under age 21 to lose their drivers license and be fined.
- Alcohol is considered the only proper payment for teachers among the Lepcha people of Tibet.
- Methyphobia is fear of alcohol.
- "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" is commonly believed to be the only English sentence devised to include all the letters of the alphabet. However, typesetters have another such sentence: "Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs."
- There is a cloud of alcohol in outer space with enough alcohol to make four trillion-trillion drinks. It's free for the taking. . . but it's 10,000 light years away from Earth.
- In Malaysia, drunk drivers are jailed and so are their spouses.
- British men have been found twice as likely to know the price of their beer as their partner's bra size.
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