Drunk History Presents Nikola Tesla *NSFW*

Amazingly accurate for someone so plastered. I think all history should be taught at this level of intoxication.

Re:Pretty weak constitution

[adolf]

I thought the discussion was about liquor, not beer.

I usually buy my liquor in handles. These traditionally contained half a gallon, but have been abbreviated to 1.75 liters.

Meanwhile, actually in actuality, the fifths sold here in Ohio are 750ml, not 757.082357ml. Canada is no different -- your 26'er, at 25.360517 fluid ounces, is a lot closer to being a 25'er than its name would imply.

There are also 1-liter bottles available (often referred to as a quart, even though that's also wrong).

Further, from Wikipedia [wikipedia.org]:

A 375 ml bottle of liquor in the US and the Canadian maritime provinces is sometimes referred to as a "pint" and a 200 ml bottle is called a "half-pint," harking back to the days when liquor came in actual US pints, quarts, and half-gallons.

Besides, everyone knows that a pint of beer is either 16 or 20 ounces in this hemisphere, though nobody can agree on which ounces to use. Except in Canada [vancouversun.com], where a pint of beer might be 500ml, or might be 20 imperial ounces.

(Just because it's true, doesn't mean it has to make sense. I, for one, was simply satisfied to finally understand that the reason there are 18 shots in a fifth is only because there's 18 holes on a golf course -- the logic seemed so infallible. And then you had to show up and make a scene of things...sigh.)