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Entertainment | Written by Kruti Shah | Saturday, 12 January 2008 |
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If you are an alcoholic then you must be knowing about all the brands and types of alcohol.But how far do you know about alcohol.
There are many things which you might not know about the alcohol.
- From birth till death,every peson produces alcohol in the 24 hours everyday.So we always have alcohol in our bodies.
- There is a cloud of alcohol in the outer space with enough alcohol to make more than four trillion drinks.
- During Prohibition, temperance activists hired a scholar to rewrite the Bible by removing all references to alcohol.
- In ancient times,one of the churches declared that the alcohol is an inherently good gift of God so use it and enjoy.
- Ancient Viking warriors used the skulls of their defeated enemy as a bowl for deinking alcohol.
- As late as the mid 17th century, the French wine makers did not use corks.Instead,they used oil-soaked rags.
- Bourbon was first produced in 1789 by a Baptist minster,also it gets its name from Bourbon country in Kentucky.
- The US congress has passed an act to make the Bourbon its official spirit.
- A "beer belly" is a disease which is caused by eating too much food. No beer is required.
- The word 'toast' - a wish of good health -started in ancient Rome, where toasted bread was dropped into wine.
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| If you are an alcoholic then you must be knowing about all the brands and types of alcohol.But how far do you know about alcohol. |
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 31 January 2008 )
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