According to Hallmark, today is Drink Beer Day! Let’s celebrate with a little beer history.
1. After he won the Nobel Prize, Niels Bohr was given a perpetual supply of beer piped into his house.
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2. The Code of Hammurabi decreed that bartenders who watered down beer would be executed.
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3. At the Wife Carrying World Championships, first prize is the wife’s weight in beer.
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4. A cloud near the constellation Aquila contains enough ethyl alcohol to fill 400 trillion trillion pints of beer.
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5. Coined in the early 1900s, the word “alcoholiday” means leisure time spent drinking.
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Elysian Waters 