The Half a Million Dollar Glas of Whine

This one has to be taken with a pinch of salt; however the legend goes that when Cleopatra was 30, she bet her new lover, Mark Antony, that she could drink half a million dollars worth of wine without ever leaving the table. Mark Antony accepted but lost when she dropped two pearls worth 10 million sestertia (The sestertius was an ancient Roman coin), into a glass of wine, which she then drank.