Watch This And Drink Every Time You Hear The Word “Prohibition”

Learn about the notorious “Rum Fleets” that kept Americans swimming in booze at 2:02. It’s amazing in retrospect how history course-corrects!

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Maegan Carberry

May 24, 2012

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