It’s A Little Know Fact…

  1. The United States Marines first recruiting station was in a bar.
  2. The average number of grapes it takes to make a bottle of wine is 600.
  3. In Ancient Rome a small piece of toasted bread was dropped into wine to wish one good health. This is how we got our modern term for a “toast”.
  4. Pirates that smuggled rum were called Rum Runners.
  5. The Pina Colada, the official drink of Puerto Rico, translates to…strained pineapple.
  6. Bourbon is the official spirit of the United States, by act of Congress.
  7. An ounce of alcohol contains around the same amount of calories as a glass of milk.
  8. Every year thousands of people choke on their own vomit while drunk.
  9. Early beer production is portrayed on ancient tomb walls in Egypt.
  10. Alcohol is by far the most commonly used drug in the world. No wonder it is legal.
  11. In Malaysia drunk drivers are jailed…and so are their spouses!
  12. Provo, Utah has the lowest rate of alcoholism in the United States. Reno, Nevada has the highest.
  13. On average, Americans drink 15 million gallons of beer every day!
  14. Whiskey is the international aviation word used to represent the letter “w”.
  15. The shallow champagne glass originated with Marie Antoinette. It was formed from wax molds of her tits!
  16. Red wine gets lighter as it ages, while white wine gets darker.
  17. Tea is the most popular beverage in the world. Beer comes in a close second!
  18. Napa Valley is now California’s number one tourist destination. They receive more visitors than Disneyland!
  19. The oldest known written recipe is for beer.
  20. It’s an urban myth that sucking on a penny will throw off the results of a breathalyzer test. It just doesn’t make any cents to do it!
  21. The portable beer cooler was invented in Australia in the 1950′s.
  22. Vodka is the worlds most consumed spirit.
  23. Poland was the first country to make gin!
  24. Kentucky supplies 90-95 percent of the world’s Bourbon supply.
  25. In the 1800′s, rum was considered excellent for cleaning hair.
  26. Washing your feet with vodka will help cure bad foot odor.
  27. Dom Perignon, a Benedictine monk, is considered to have invented champagne.
  28. All fruit juices contain some alcohol.
  29. The puritans loaded more beer than water onto the Mayflower before they set off for the New World!
  30. A champagne cork pops out of the bottle at around 38-40 mph.
  31. In the 1600′s thermometers were filled with brandy instead of mercury.
  32. Foot treading of grapes is still performed today in production of some of the best port wines.
  33. The longest recorded champagne cork flight was 177 feet and 9 inches!
  34. Alcohol has been widely consumed since prehistoric times by people throughout the world.
  35. The average age of a French oak tree harvested for use as wine barrels is 170 years old!
  36. Alcohol is the number one date rate drug.
  37. Beer is a source of B-complex vitamins.
  38. Bootlegging means smuggling liquor over land.
  39. Women absorb alcohol into the blood stream faster than men.
  40. Franklin Delanor Roosevelt was elected in 1932 as President of The United States due to his promise to end prohibition!
  41. Giving fruit flies some red wine actually lengthens their lives. Lets just hope the same is true for bar flies!
  42. Around one-third of all suicides are related to alcohol abuse.
  43. A blended Scotch whisky contains a mix of whisky from 40-50 different distilleries!
  44. Non-alcoholic beers contain about 94 percent less alcohol than regular beers.
  45. Portugal is the main source and largest producer of wine corks in the world.
  46. Methyphobia is the fear of alcohol.
  47. In Japan, beer is sold in vending machines. This supports the theory behind my post…Robocock!
  48. Cliff from Cheers was originally cast as a police officer, but the producers felt if he was a mailman, he would have more access to information regarding his trademark…Little Known Facts!
  49. Vodka will alleviate and disinfect a jellyfish sting.
  50. There are approximately 250 million bubbles in a bottle of champagne!
  51. In 2002, Barry Wilson set a world record when he consumed 3 pints of beer in 31 seconds. An imperial pint is 20 ounces!
  52. Absinthe has been legal in the US since 2007. Unfortunately, contrary to popular belief, absinthe doesn’t make you hallucinate.
  53. Abraham Lincoln held a liquor license and operated several bars.
  54. In some European countries McDonald’s serves alcohol!
  55. An ounce of alcohol contains the amount of calories equivalent to those in a baked potato!
  56. One acre of grapevines produces about 800 gallons of wine!
  57. There is a zoo in India that serves brandy to its bears in the winter…to help keep them  warm.
  58. Adolf Hitler was one of the best known abstainers from alcohol.
  59. A mixed drink containing a carbonated beverage is absorbed into the body faster than a straight shot.
  60. The worlds longest-serving bartender is Angelo Cammarata. He poured drinks for nearly 77 years!
  61. You can keep your beverage from sticking to your cocktail napkin by sprinkling a little salt on the napkin before you set the drink down.
  62. The wealthier a person is, the more likely they are to drink.
  63. WC Fields started each day with two double martinis. One before breakfast and one after! He drank around two quarts of gin a day.
  64. The entire Encyclopedia Britannica is banned in Texas because it contains a recipe for making beer at home.
  65. Over 98% of working bartenders have never taken a bartending class in their life!
  66. In 2007, 40 elephants broke into and drank several casks of rice wine in east India. Six of them died from fallen power lines when they knocked over several poles on their drunken escape through town afterwards. Just goes to show…never drink and stampede!
  67. On any given Friday or Saturday night in North America one out of ten people driving is legally drunk!
  68. Stephanie, this one is dedicated to you: The average golfer in America walks about 900 miles and drinks approximately 22  gallons of alcohol in a year. This means American golfers get around 41 miles to the gallon!
  69. Mai Tai means…out of this world…in Tahitian.
  70. Australia developed wine in a box in the 1970′s.
  71. Sake is not a rice wine. It is actually a beer.
  72. Grappa is not wine. It is an Italian brandy.
  73. In Bulgaria if you get a second conviction for drunk driving…you will be executed!
  74. The first brewery in America was built in Hoboken, New Jersey in 1642.
  75. Tom Arnold, Sandra Bullock, Bill Cosby, Chevy Chase, and Bruce Willis were all bartenders.
  76. Diva Vodka sells from $450,000 – 1 million dollars a bottle! It is made with diamonds and Swarovski crystals.
  77. Vodka can help alleviate the pain from a toothache. Swish a shot around the infected area and let the alcohol be absorbed by the gum. This will numb it up.
  78. The highest proof an alcohol can exist at without evaporating is 190. %95 alcohol! Everclear, a grain alcohol, is one example.
  79. Alaska Distillery produces a hand crafted vodka infused with smoked salmon.
  80. Seagull Wine was invented by the Eskimos. They make it by putting a dead seagull in a jar with water and leaving it in the sun until it’s done fermenting!
  81. Ancient Romans ate fried canaries to cure a hangover.
  82. Budweiser beer is named after a town in Czechoslovakia.
  83. Most alcoholic beverages contain all 13 minerals necessary to sustain human life.
  84. The vintage date on a bottle of wine indicates the year the grapes were harvested, not the year of bottling.
  85. There is a baby mouse liquor found in rural parts of Korea. It is a distilled rice spirit which is fermented for 1-2 years with 2-3 day old baby mice carcasses!
  86. Binge drinking is defined as the consumption of five or more drinks at a time.
  87. Bia Hoi, the Vietnamese version of Bud Light, sells for around 16 cents for a 12 ounce bottle in Hanoi. This is very possibly the cheapest beer in the world!
  88. Jose Cuervo was the first company to export tequila from Mexico to the United States.
  89. Demeter Frangrance Library has created a cologne designed to smell like a Cosmopolitan!
  90. Jim Beam Bourbon was around when George Washington was alive! The recipe remains the same to this day.
  91. The term “The Real McCoy” came from the prohibition era. Captain McCoy was running rum on his ships and never watered down the product…making his rum…the real thing.
  92. The word whiskey comes from the Gaelic term…usquebaugh…which means…water of life.
  93. It takes an agave plant 8-12 years to mature to an age suitable for harvesting and using in tequila production.
  94. Heavy drinkers exercise 37% more than non-drinkers!
  95. Germany has a beer ice cream that is served in popsicle form.
  96. Vodka was first introduced to America in the 1930′s by the Smirnoff family.
  97. Approximately 2.5 million people…worldwide…die each year from alcohol related deaths!
  98. The standard keg holds 15.5 gallons which is 165 twelve ounce beers.
  99. Remy Martin does not release the number of Louis XIII bottles produced a year. It is a company secret.
  100. In Japanese tradition, a person must never pour his own sake.
  101. The largest selling single malt scotch in the world in Glenfiddich.
  102. Dave Matthews was once a bartender.
  103. It takes about 2.8 pounds of grapes to make 1 bottle of wine.
  104. In the 2011 Readers Poll in Rolling Stone Magazine…Where Everybody Knows Your Name…was voted the best theme song in television history. Cheers!
  105. Stephen King was drunk when he delivered his mothers eulogy.
  106. The drunkest city in America for 2011 was Boston.
  107. The code of Hammurabi included laws regulating beer.
  108. Teddy Roosevelt took more than 500 gallons of beer along with him on his African safari in 1909!
  109. A single beer sold for over $16,000 at a recent auction! It was an unopened bottle on Lowenbrau Lager recovered from the wreckage of the Hindenburg in 1937.
  110. The Malaysian pen-tailed tree shrew is possibly the wild kingdom’s greatest lush. This tiny animal lives on a diet equivalent to 100 percent beer! It’s beverage of choice is the fermented nectar from the flowers of the bertam palm tree…around 3.8 percent in alcohol content.
  111. 90 to 95 percent of sake is produced in the United States!
  112. Franklin Roosevelt brought along a martini kit on his international summit meetings.
  113. Courvoisier was Napoleon’s favorite cognac.
  114. Hacienda La Capilla has made a bottle of tequila which they hope to sell at an auction for around 3.5 million dollars. The bottle in encrusted with 4,000 diamonds.
  115. Grog is rum which has been watered down and mixed with lime juice.
  116. Low quality or old sake is often served hot. This helps mask any imperfections.
  117. Barrack Obama’s favorite beer is Yuengling Lager.
  118. Edgar Allen Poe drank himself to death at the age of 40.
  119. Elton John helped Eminem sober up from his alcohol addiction. How ironic.
  120. The average person views over 2,000 commercials for alcohol every year!
  121. Raymond Chandler abused alcohol for the entire duration of his writing career.
  122. Everclear can be used as a fuel in camping stoves.
  123. In 2006, Tom and Athena Seefurth created a beer to pair perfectly with pizza. Pizza Beer. It is made from wheat crust, garlic, tomato, basil, and oregano!
  124. Studies have shown the frequency of the common cold is reduced by moderate wine consumption!
  125. There are more classic cocktails made with gin than with any other spirit.
  126. More than half the purchase price of a fifth of whiskey in the U.S. goes to taxes! Local, state and federal.
  127. There are more than 5,000 types of single malt whisky.
  128. San Diego led the U.S. in DUI citations for the year of 2011. Los Angeles was second and San Francisco…fifth. Crazy Californians!
  129. Drew Barrymore went to rehab at the age of 13.
  130. Research shows that the amount of beer you drink and the size of your belly have no correlation whatsoever!
  131. Sir Winston Churchill’s favorite scotch was Johnnie Walker Black Label.
  132. There is a cloud of alcohol in outer space big enough to make four trillion-trillion cocktails…or so!
  133. Chronic alcohol use can cause an overall reduction in brain size!
  134. Elmer Fisher was charged with a DUI after he passed out drunk while driving a horse-drawn carriage in Wisconsin. What a horse’s ass!
  135. Statistics show that during the Christmas holidays, two to three times more people die in alcohol related crashes than during comparable periods of the year!
  136. Over 300 million bottles of Champagne are produced annually.
  137. Al Bundy named his son after a brand of beer…Bud.
  138. Andre the Giant…the once famous wrestler…drank 119 beers…during a 6 hour period. That’s about 1 beer every 3 minutes! He was a god in the world of drinking beer. So if you believe you can pound beer…think again.
  139. Vodka works great for cleaning up vomit stains. How convenient!
  140. Cheers lasted 11 seasons and won 27 Emmy Awards during that time! The last episode was on May 20, 1993, and was entitled, “One For The Road”.
  141. “It’s a little known fact that the smartest animal is a pig. Scientists say if pigs had thumbs and a language, they could be trained to do simple manual labor. They give you 20-30 years of loyal service and then at their retirement dinner you can eat them.” — Cliff Clavin
  142. The BATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms) prohibits the use of the word…refreshing…to describe any alcoholic beverage.
  143. Alcohol is the #1 killer of people in the United States under 25.
  144. When consumed moderately, alcohol is often associated with enhancing our cognitive functioning!
  145. There is 1 pub for every 350 people in Ireland.
  146. In France…the average adult consumes around 500 glasses of wine a year!
  147. Early Egyptian writings urged mothers to send their children to school with plenty of bread and beer for their lunch!
  148. Budweiser makes around 780 million gallons of beer per year!
  149. Billionaire Vodka sells a bottle for $3.7 million!
  150. Premium sake is gluten-free, sulfite free, and kosher.
  151. The U.S. consumes nearly twice as much tequila as Mexico each year.

 

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