David Boon's mythical half-century

Legend has it, he drank 52 cans of beer in one flight. Legend might have it wrong.

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Australian standard beer cans are differently sized to most places in the world. Usually they are 330ml – a can in Australia is 375ml.

It is only 45 more millilitres – you might spill that much.

But if you drank 52 cans of beer, then an extra 45ml is really important. That many cans of lager at 330 is more than 17.16 litres of liquid, the bigger cans push that to 19.5.