Things I learned at Oktoberfest this evening:
- The beer steins each contain a liter, and each one is about 7% alcohol per volume.
- With the stein, each one weighs about a kilogram, and waitresses carry up to eight at a time.
- To accomplish this, they wear wrist braces.
- Some also wear tags on their drindls that warn festival-goers not to touch, as drunken tourists tend to do.
- The event attracts more and more tourists each year, largely from the UK.
- It is a popular destination for Hen and Stag parties.
- Around 7 million visitors consume about 7 million liters of beer.
- The grounds comprise many beer tents, the largest being around 4000 m$^2$ and fitting upwards of 7000 people.
- Most tents include live music, usually a mix of pop and traditional Bavarian tunes.
- Repeatedly throughout the night, the jingle Ein Prosit der Gemütlichkeit (A toast to good cheer) is played, which signals that everyone should clink their beers and have a swig.
- The festival is held in a 420,000 m$^2$ space known as Theresienwiesen.
- The space is named after Theresa of Saxe-Hildburghausen, who wed Ludwig I on the grounds in 1810.
- Their wedding celebrations were attended by much of the Munich public, and it was decided that the festivities should continue every year...
- ...thus the birth of Oktoberfest.
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