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Why was alcohol designed?

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Anonymous

17y ago
Updated: 8/16/2019

So the Irish wouldn't take over the world. Actually alcohol was probably discovered by accident but made an excellent preservative for drink making it much safer than water. In those days drinking the water would kill you due to organisms living therein.

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