1.  The world’s oldest beer recipe comes from approximately 1800 B.C. in ancient Mesopotamia.  And people today have brewed it . . . and found it tasted dry.

2.  The first athlete to ever earn $1 million was a bare-knuckle boxer named John L. Sullivan in 1882.

3.  Blink-182 was originally called Blink, but there was an Irish band named Blink that threatened to sue them.  And the Irish Blink wound up opening a show for Blink-182 about four years later.

4.  “Jingle Bells” was originally written as a Thanksgiving song.

5.  It takes 872 gallons of water to produce one gallon of wine.