6 Things You Didn’t Know About… Beer

Right now

At any given time, 0.7% of the world is drunk. So 50 million people are drunk right now.

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Alcoholic

Beer was not considered an alcoholic beverage in Russia until 2013.

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Payment

Amsterdam pays alcoholics in beer. For cleaning the city streets, local alcoholics get 10 Euros, half a packet of rolling tobacco and 5 beers as payment by a government-funded organization.

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Clean streets

Amsterdam pays alcoholics in beer to clean streets: 5 cans of beer for a day’s work, plus €10 and tobacco.

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Cenosillicaphobia

Cenosillicaphobia is the fear of an empty beer glass.

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Longest hangover

The longest hangover in medical literature lasted four weeks. It belonged to a 37-year-old man from Glasgow.

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