Five fun facts for St. Patrick’s Day

Here are five things about St. Patrick’s Day that you may not have known.

4. A lot more pints on St. Patrick’s Day

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Guinness kegs sit outside a pub in Ireland.

It's a stereotype: Beer and Ireland go together. But on St. Patrick's Day consumption of Guinness worldwide more than doubles, a spokesman for the famous Irish beer told National Geographic, from 5.5 pints a day to about 13 million.

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