1. Also in 1814, London was hit by a beer flood as a huge vat burst at a brewery in Tottenham Court Road sending off a 323,000 gallon wave of beer.
2. The beer wave demolished two houses, knocked down the wall of a public house and drowned at least eight people.
3. Workers on the Egyptian pyramids were given a gallon of beer a day.
4. Then oldest evidence of beer-drinking is a picture on a 6,000-year-old Sumerian tablet.
5. The Sumerians even had a goddess of beer and brewing named Ninkasi.
6. A women’s record was set this week in the Beer Mile World Championships in Austin, Texas, when Elizabeth Herndon ran a mile in 6min 17.76sec, drinking a pint of beer at the start of each lap.
7. The men’s race was won in 5min 00.23sec.
8. People in the Czech Republic drink more beer per capita than any other country, an average of 262 pints a year. Austria is second on 190 pints.
9. The world record for the most beer bottle caps removed with the teeth in one minute is 68.
10. In 2006, a Barnsley pub was named The Joseph Bramah in honour of the beer pump inventor.
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