And speaking of hangovers:

In Haiti, locals cure them voodoo-style, by sticking 13 black-headed pins into the cork of the bottle that caused the problem.

George IV, England's fattest king, ate breakfasts consisting of three beefsteaks and two pigeons washed down with a bottle of wine, half a bottle of champagne, two glasses of port and several glasses of brandy.

One of Napoleon's top soldiers, Gen. Bisson, drank eight bottles of wine a day ­ with breakfast.

Was Noah the first farmer to get plowed? As we read in Genesis, "Noah was the first tiller of the soil. He planted a vineyard, and he drank of the wine and became drunk."

Talk about miracles!
Back in the 1500s, St. Brigid of Ireland changed her bath water into beer for thirsty guests at her Kildare abbey. The drinkers reported that the beer had a "saintlike" taste.

In 1632, the weekly children's food ration in a British hospital included two gallons of beer.

After dying in the battle of Trafalgar, Admiral Lord Nelson was shipped back to England in a cask of brandy -- to keep his body fresh for his funeral. After his pickled corpse was removed, the brandy was served to his sailors so they could drink a toast to their fallen commander.

The thirstiest beer-drinkers in the world live in the Northern Territory of Australia, where each man, woman and child chugs an average of 61 gallons per year.

When Philip the Handsome of Spain drank himself to death 500 years ago, his wife, Joanna, took to drink herself -- and for three years, she kept Philip's corpse in bed with her, drinking toasts to his health each morning and night. The smell of the corpse finally forced the servants to remove it one day after Joanna had passed out.