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TIL Professional snooker player "Big Bill" Werbeniuk once drank 76 cans of lager during a competitive game. He then carried on drinking for another 7 hours. Werbeniuk also offset the cost of lager against income tax, consuming 50 pints a day. He died of heart failure aged 53

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