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Absolute superb classic. 10/10



or the studio version which starts at 4:56 in the following video.

 

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National Beer Drinking Day

Today is National Beer Day! If you're out with friends and run out of things to talk about, here are some beer facts:

1. After he won the Nobel Prize, Niels Bohr was given a perpetual supply of beer piped into his house.
2. The Code of Hammurabi decreed that bartenders who watered down beer would be executed.
3. At the Wife Carrying World Championships, first prize is the wife's weight in beer.
4. A cloud near the constellation Aquila contains enough ethyl alcohol to fill 400 trillion trillion pints of beer.
5. Coined in the early 1900s, the word "alcoholiday" means leisure time spent drinking.
6. The builders of the Great Pyramid of Giza were paid with a daily ration of beer.
7. During WWII, a bear named Wojtek joined the Polish army. He transported ammunition and sometimes drank beer.
8. Fried beer won Most Creative Fried Food at the 2010 Texas State Fair.
9. The top five states for beer consumption per capita: 1. North Dakota, 2. New Hampshire, 3. Montana, 4. South Dakota 5. Wisconsin.
10. Germany is home to a beer pipeline. Taps in Veltsin-Arena are connected by a 5km tube of beer.
11. Thomas Jefferson wrote parts of the Declaration of Independence in a Philadelphia tavern.
12. Cenosillicaphobia is the fear of an empty glass.
13. At the end of Prohibition, FDR said, "What America needs now is a drink."
14. Winston Churchill called the concept of Prohibition "an affront to the whole history of mankind."
15. George Washington insisted his continental army be permitted a quart of beer as part of their daily rations.
16. Oktoberfest originally started as a festival celebrating the 1810 marriage of Crown Prince Ludwig.
17. At spas in Europe, you can literally bathe in beer as a physical and mental therapeutic treatment.
18. In the 1990s, the Beer Lovers Party ran candidates in Belarus and Russia.
19. J.K. Rowling invented Quidditch in a pub.
20. Beer helped Joseph Priestly discover oxygen. He noticed gases rising from the big vats of beer at a brewery and asked to do some experiments.
21. A Buddhist temple in the Thai countryside was built with over a million recycled beer bottles.
22. The moon has a crater named Beer.
23. Beer soup was a common breakfast in medieval Europe.
24. At the start of Bavarian Beer Week in Germany, an open-air beer fountain dispenses free beer to the public.
25. In the 1980s, a beer-drinking goat was elected mayor of Lajitas, TX.
––Mental Floss
 

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Don't like it that much, but I'll give you an extra point because the first video had the skyline of Chicago in the beginning. 3/10

 

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9. The top five states for beer consumption per capita: 1. North Dakota, 2. New Hampshire, 3. Montana, 4. South Dakota 5. Wisconsin.

I find this one interesting, since I live in Illinois and have been to Wisconsin, I think they should be first!!! :heheh:

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WI would probably be higher, but during football season, they switch back and forth between paint thinner and whatever stanky local beer they are drinking on game day.
 

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9. The top five states for beer consumption per capita: 1. North Dakota, 2. New Hampshire, 3. Montana, 4. South Dakota 5. Wisconsin.

I find this one interesting, since I live in Illinois and have been to Wisconsin, I think they should be first!!! :heheh:

Guess ya never lived in Nodak! :gig
 
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