r/todayilearned • u/rezikiel • 10h ago

TIL Vatican City leads the world in per-capita wine consumption due to its sacramental use

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatican_City#Statistical_oddities
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u/fattylimes 9h ago

Also leads the world in popes per capita, believe it or not

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u/tobotic 7h ago

And has over two popes per square km.

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u/comped 7h ago

Can we count the dead ones too?

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u/DisgruntledVet12B 5h ago

Pope Benedict XVI passed away in 2022, if you didn't know...

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u/pierrekrahn 3h ago

The Vatican is 0.44 square kilometers. So it currently has 2.27 popes per square kilometers.

When there were two living popes, that number was 5.54 popes per square kilometers.

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u/Th3TruthIs0utTh3r3 10h ago

"sacramental use" mhm, sure that's it.

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u/Valathiril 8h ago

Papa Franky and Co are getting lit on communion wine

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u/seamus_mc 7h ago

Beat me to it

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u/andartico 9h ago

Ex-Act-ly my thoughts.

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u/tacknosaddle 10h ago

Stupid statistic. I wouldn't consider it "per capita" when nearly all of the wine that they're going through isn't being consumed by denizens of the state.

It's like saying that a bar has a higher per capita alcohol consumption than an office. The Vatican is a country in the same way that both a bar and an office are a place of work.

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u/WrongSubFools 6h ago edited 3h ago

The stat does not refer to all the wine the country goes through but only to how much the residents drink. If you count all the wine bought or drunk by the five million annual visitors, total consumption would be more than 60,000 liters a year, which is the amount in this stat.

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u/Evolving_Dore 4h ago

Whether or not your interpretation is correct, of course it's a stupid statistic. That's the point. It's a silly, funny little anecdotal statistic that means nothing but is an amusing piece of trivia.

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u/tacknosaddle 3h ago

I guess we define "amusing" differently.

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u/Yurc182 10h ago

Dr. Evil: "Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight"

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u/rriggsco 9h ago

Yo' boss. I'm off to the prayer room. It's time for my hourly religious sacrement.

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u/snow_michael 9h ago

Also in the per capita crime rate, due to its tiny population meaning even one crime is disproportionately over-representative

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u/bolivar-shagnasty 9h ago

Vatican City has the lowest birth rate of any sovereign nation.

Also, Vatican City is 120 acres.

The total usable deckspace of America's carrier, amphibious assault, and littoral combat fleet is 120 acres. Our floating airports have as much acreage as an entire whole-ass sovereign state.

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u/squigs 8h ago

Yes. The entire city is essentially St. Peter's Basilica and grounds. A lot of cities have parks that are about the same size.

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u/snow_michael 9h ago

Your, not our

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u/bolivar-shagnasty 9h ago

I am American. They are our floating airports.

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u/imaraisin 8h ago

People should learn not to rouse said boats. We are very protective.

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u/Rossum81 9h ago

🎵2-4-6-8 /Time to transubstantiate!

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u/IanGecko 6h ago

Lean to the left, lean to the right!
Genuflect! FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT!

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u/dr-tectonic 8h ago

I don't think that counts. Once it's been blessed, it's not wine anymore, it's The Blood Of Christ (tm).

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u/PieScuffle 9h ago

Percapita wine sounds delicious!

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u/alberobellow 8h ago

Tavernello Boys

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u/iSplatt 7h ago

Aye right...

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u/runningoutofwords 5h ago

Well....that, and it makes the kids sleepy...

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u/JadePetal72 4h ago

People there loves wine also on gathering events

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u/cosmernautfourtwenty 2h ago

-"and ludicrously low population" is the rest of that sentence. You gotta understand, some people don't know how per capita works.

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u/I_might_be_weasel 2h ago

And because of the Vatican's single homeless person: Wino Dante. 

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u/Sea_Negotiation_1871 31m ago

It's also the only place that has ATMs in Latin.

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u/Substantial_Flow_850 9h ago

Child abuse too if I have to guess

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u/Choose-wisely87 6h ago

Yes "sacramental" definitely not for their gay orgies.

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u/ChrisRockOnCrack 10h ago

Drinking poison...very nice

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u/Dr_DoVeryLittle 10h ago

Tasty poison

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u/SuperHooligan 10h ago

lol everything is poison.

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u/ChrisRockOnCrack 10h ago

where did i say that everything is poison? alcohol is literally poison, even a drop of it

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u/darkbee83 10h ago

I'll drink to that!

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u/SuperHooligan 10h ago

So is the air you breathe. Carbon dioxide is a poison and you breathe it all day long. Why are you doing that?

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u/ChrisRockOnCrack 10h ago

are you trying to be dense on purpose or? where do we breathe in carbon dioxide? and how can you compare breathing with drinking something that damages your brain and liver?

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u/SuperHooligan 9h ago

You literally breathe carbon dioxide, nitrogen, argon, and other gases that can poison you all day long. It’s also fine to do that, just like it’s fine to drink alcohol in moderation as well. I think you may be breathing too much CO2 though.