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In the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, characters regularly gulp rum straight from the bottle like it's water. Was this something that people actually did? Was rum measurably weaker back then? Were people just constantly drunk all the time?

by /u/Ge0rgeBr0ughton in /r/AskHistorians

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