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Drunken Monkeys

If it’s good for the monkeys, it’s good for the man. Just not for the man who was pulled over with blood alcohol 18 times his legal limit at 7.27 grams per liter
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BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Monkeys and apes in Budapest’s Zoo drink their way through 55 litres of red wine each year, albeit in small quantities each day, to help boost their red blood cells, the zoo said Monday.
Budapest Zoo spokesman Zoltan Hanga said it was the 11 anthropoid apes who drank most of the wine in 2005.
“Obviously, they do not have it all at once and get drunk, but they get it in small amounts mixed in their tea,” Hanga said.
“And it’s not Eger Bulls Blood or some expensive wine that they are getting but simple table wine, as it’s mainly good for their blood cells.”
Bulls Blood from the town of Eger in northeast Hungary, became one of eastern Europe’s best-known wines under communism.


A crypto startup called Petshitter — a platform to turn dog waste into crypto, pay people to collect it, and solve a real problem no one in tech has touched. A ridiculous ticket to $3 million in VC funding, a military-grade hazing boot camp, and a seat at the table of the most corrupt, brilliant, and self-congratulatory ecosystem in human history.

Petshitter — on Amazon

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