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Foreign Fridays Fact: Iceland

As part of Foreign Fridays, we explore a different country each week through its most unusual, amusing and odd facts. If you want your country to appear, then simply get in contact with us either in the comments below or through Facebook or Twitter.

This week it is the turn of the Iceland:

On 1st March, Iceland celebrates Beer Day in celebration
of the end of beer prohibition in 1989.  

When you think of prohibition, you probably think of the speakeasies and and gangsters of 1920's America. However, the US wasn't the only place that introduced prohibition near the start of the 20th century. In Iceland in 1915 all alcohol was made illegal after the population voted in a referendum.

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