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There’s a U.S. president whose first language wasn’t English.

What historical fact sounds fake but is true?

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In 1830, alcohol consumption in the United States reached remarkably high levels. The average American consumed the equivalent of roughly 1.7 bottles of regular-strength whiskey every week. Historians commonly estimate that during the 1830s, Americans consumed around 7 to 8 gallons of pure alcohol per person each year, an amount that translates into extremely heavy weekly drinking when measured in spirits such as whiskey. Depending on bottle size and alcohol content, that equals roughly 1 to 2 bottles of whiskey per person every week. One major reason for these levels was that distilled liquor, especially whiskey, was inexpensive, easy to produce, and in many places considered safer than contaminated drinking water. On the frontier, whiskey was even used as a form of currency, helping fuel both its trade and consumption. This era marked one of the highest points of alcohol use in American history and played a major role in the growth of the temperance movement during the 1820s and 1830s, which later shaped broader cultural and legal attitudes toward drinking.