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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.

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