Not many may have known it, but many people around the globe actually observed and celebrated National Beer Day on April 7.

Not much is known about how it came to be celebrated on this day, particularly in the Philippines where beer festivals are held in the month of October.

Be that as it may, here are 9 interesting facts you should know about beer before you get drunk:

1. The first brewers of beer were the Babylonians.
2. During the Middle Ages, clean drinkable water was scarce, so people leaned into drinking beer.
3. Cenosillicaphobia is the fear of an empty beer glass.
4. Before President Theodore Roosevelt allowed the consumption of beer, it was banned in the United States for 13 years, 10 months, and 19 days.
5. Zythology is the study of beer and the process of making beer.
6. In 2,000 BC, the first drunk driving incident happened. when an Egyptian crashed a vestal virgin of the Egyptian goddess Hathor while he was intoxicated.
7. The first professional brewers were all women.
8. Hops, a bitter herb used in brewing beer, belongs to the same family of marijuana.
9. Belgium has the most individual beer brands in the world. Gianna Francesca Catolico, INQUIRER.net