Champagne Corks facts

While investigating facts about Champagne Corks And Cages and Champagne Corks Crafts, I found out little known, but curios details like:

Champagne corks, popped during celebrations, kill roughly 25 people every year.

how champagne corks are made?

Champagne was created accidentally in France, and it was called "the devil's wine" because bottles of it would explode and corks would randomly pop.

What to make with champagne corks?

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what to do with champagne corks?

1. More people are killed by errant golf balls and flying champagne corks each year than are bitten by coyotes.

2. More people are killed by errant golf balls and flying champagne corks each year than are bitten by coyotes.

3. All of the tiny wire cages on the corks of champagne (muselet) require exactly 6 half turns to open, regardless of brand.

4. Opening a champagne bottle with a large knife is called Sabering, and there's an art to it. The bottle has to be the right temperature, cause the cork and surrounding glass ring fly out due to the internal pressure, vibration and the swipe of the sabre.

5. Champagne corks start out normally shaped - the "mushroom" shape occurs during the bottling process due to pressure

6. More people die from champagne corks than from poisonous spiders

7. A champagne cork can fly off the bottle at 24.8 miles per hour (and that's not fast enough to kill you).