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Like how much did it take to get drunk then vs. today?

Like how much did it take to get drunk then vs. today?

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No one liked to get drunk back then. Only drank for health.

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Not factually correct.

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Like "water was poison"?

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While they didn't know about microbes, they understood that drinking dirty water made them sick. Beer gave them the fluids and did not make them sick. The paraphrased saying was common in the first millennium "drink beer, water is poison".