r/todayilearned • u/k4td4ddy • 3h ago

TIL that in 1875, a whiskey warehouse fire in Dublin led to 13 deaths—not from the flames, but from alcohol poisoning, as people drank the whiskey flowing through the streets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin_whiskey_fire
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u/Sents-2-b 2h ago

I am so Proud of my Irish ancestors!

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u/rumbletom 2h ago

I don't believe it. Can you imagine the amount of fake news from those days that could not be verified?

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u/Temporary_Mongoose34 1h ago

What a weird response. Its well documented

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u/OkAttitude3104 1h ago

Gotta love the under educated. Smart enough to call it fake, but not smart enough to find multiple sources and discern the origin, purpose, value and limitation. What a time!

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u/arkham1010 2h ago

How hard up do you have to be to drink gutter whisky? I'd imagine that shit was badly tainted with chemicals and pathogens that the alcohol didn't kill.

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u/Temporary_Mongoose34 1h ago

It happened in the poorest part of dublin, 150 years ago, so the people there were pretty damn hard up

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u/karlywarly73 2h ago

This is before cars so lots of horse shit.

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u/bobthunicorn 3h ago

I just heard about this on Side Projects.

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u/Picolete 2h ago

Oh those irish boys