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womN8 TIL: The "Festival of Drunkeness" in Ancient Egypt celebrates the sensory elements of life and pleases the goddess Hathor and participants believed alcohol saved humanity. There was drinking, dancing, and sex to the point of passing out and being woken by temple bells the next day for prayer.
a8vkN TIL that, on 16 November, 1949, students in Ghent (Belgium) stormed the medieval castle, lowered the portcullis and threw fruit from the walls at the police to protest a new tax on beer. The event is still commemorated yearly by the city as the greatest student prank in its history.
D1jEj TIL characters that are without anymore money in (older) cartoons wear nothing but a barrel, actually stems from a drunkenness law in England, among other countries, dubbed as 'The Drunkard’s Cloak', back in the 16th century.