Numbers game: 2 to tango, champagne facts
Champagne facts to boggle your mind: Marilyn Monroe's 350-bottle bath, Churchill's 42,000 bottles, 49 million bubbles a bottle and the $2.07 million Goût de Diamants.
Champagne is supposed to be one of the catalysts in igniting romance between couples. However, romance isn’t the only thing that fascinates when it comes to the eloquent drink. Wait until these amazing facts boggle your mind!
350 bottles
Of champagne were once used to fill up the tub in which Marilyn Monroe took a bath.
49
Million Bubbles are there in a 750 ml Bottle Of Champagne!
42,000
bottles - Winston Churchill consumed these many bottles between 1908 and 1965, making him one of the heaviest drinkers in history!
1-3 glasses
Of champagne once a week can prevent memory loss/ dementia, as per a new study.
66
Is the greatest number of champagne bottles sabered in one minute to be officially recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records (“sabrage” is a term for opening a champagne bottle with an actual sword).
In 19th century
England, high society men thought that the best way to polishing their shoes was with Champagne!
70 to 90
pounds per square inch is the typical pressure (estimated) in a champagne bottle.
In 1693
19 year old Dom Pierre Pérignon (A French Monk) invented Champagne and is also tagged as Father of Champagne by many!
3 times
More gas is found in Champagne in comparison to beer!
$2.07 million
It is the cost of the world’s most expensive champagne named Goût de Diamants, Taste of Diamonds.
From the February 2019 issue of FHM India.
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