• The first recruiting station of the U.S. Marines was a bar.

• The world’s oldest known recipe is for beer. • United States has the highest minimum drinking age in the entire world.

•Most vegetable and almost all fruits contain a small amount of alcohol in them.

• The first Thanksgiving D ay didn’t include mashed potatoes, turkey and all other foods that we usually eat on this particular day. However, there was beer, brandy, gin and wine.

• Bourbon, the official drink of United States takes its name from Bourbon County in Kentucky.

• The pressure in a champagne bottle is 90 pounds per square inch, that is three times the pressure in automobile tires.

• The soil of one of the vineyards in France is considered so precious that it is mandatory for workers to scrape the soil off their shoes before they leave.

• Anyone under the age of 21 should be careful of taking out trash bags in Missouri. If you are under 21 and the garbage contains an empty bottle of alcohol, you can be charged with illegal possession of alcohol.

• Brandy, rum and whisky can be either aged too long or not long enough.

It is estimated that there are 49,000,000 (forty-nine million) bubbles in a bottle of champagne.

•Human body produces its own supply of alcohol naturally, 24 hours a day and 7 days a week.

• Beer started selling in bottles starting 1850 and in cans starting 1935.

• In the 1600’s thermometer used to be filled with brandy instead of mercury.

• There is a cloud of alcohol in the outer space which is enough to make four trillion-trillion drinks.