This one can’t be particularly surprising to anyone. The idea of a world-record drinking binge is like a beer bong: It might seem cool when you’re in college, but it’s alarming to see as an adult. Obviously, the health concerns of someone trying to drink more alcohol than anyone ever had before doesn’t require a medical expert to break down. It’s basically a 1-to-1 trade between alcohol poisoning and a blurb in the record books.
One such record, now etched in stone, is the record for most beer drunk in an hour, held now and forevermore by Jack Keyes of Northern Ireland (insert joke here), who drank 36 pints, or 576 ounces of beer, in one hour. This would give a 200-pound man a blood alcohol concentration of roughly 1 percent. When your BAC doesn’t require decimals, you’re probably dead. To be exact, it’s a BAC of 1.08 percent, which means Keyes drank enough that 1/100th of his blood volume was alcohol, and then the legal driving limit on top of that. I assume he also holds the record for the largest McDonald’s order of all time.