• Anthropologist Solomon Katz theorizes that the need to grow grain to make beer is what lured men and women out of their caves 10,000 years ago and led to the dawn of civilization.

• The Budweiser Clydesdales weigh 2,300 pounds. Each.

• The beer cap was invented in 1892; the beer can in 1935.

• A 3,500-gallon beer tank ruptured in London in 1814, drowning nine.

• Some historians say the Pilgrims intended to land in a more moderate clime farther south, but stopped short at frigid Plymouth Rock because they were running out of beer.

• There are 19 kinds of Guinness.

• ''Once during Prohibition,'' said beer-loving comic W.C. Fields, ``I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.''

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