40 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Alcohol | Amazing Facts 4U
- The production of alcohol has been traced back at least 12,000 years.
- There are 13 minerals that are essential for human life, and all of them can be found in alcohol.
- Most vegetables and almost all fruits contain a small amount of alcohol in them.
- The world’s oldest known recipe is for beer.
- The amazing fact is that the human body produces its own supply of alcohol naturally, 24 hours a day.
- The fact is all spirits (unlike beer and wine) are originally clear and colorless. The golden brown and other colors are achieved due to the aging process.
- Alcohol kills one person every 10 seconds worldwide.
- At any given time, 0.7% of the world’s population is drunk. It means 50 million people are drunk right now.
- It only takes 6 minutes for brain cells to react to alcohol. Alcohol is not digested; it gets absorbed directly into the bloodstream.
- Alcohol doesn’t make you forget anything. In fact, when you get blackout drunk, the brain temporarily loses the ability to create memories.
- Amazingly about half the world’s population older than 15 have never consumed alcohol.
- Per capita, alcohol consumption is high in Russia where there are over 500,000 alcohol-related deaths each year. In fact, beer was not considered an alcoholic beverage in Russia until 2013.
- Vodka is the world’s most popular liquor by a huge margin, with about 5 billion liters consumed every year.
- The word brandy is derived from the Dutch word brandewijn; it means burnt wine.
- Distilled spirits such as brandy, gin, rum, etc. contain no carbohydrates, no fats, and no cholesterol of any kind.
- In order to make a bottle of wine, you will need to have approximately 600 grapes on hand.
- White wine gets darker as it ages while red wine gets lighter.
- The most beer-drinking country in the world is the Czech Republic with an amazing per capita beer consumption of almost 40 gallons a year. Next in ranks are Germany and Ireland.
- Heavy drinking will lead to hepatitis and the resulting irreversible liver damage will result in liver cirrhosis which could be fatal.
- Amazingly the soil of one of the vineyards in France is considered so precious that it is mandatory for workers to scrape the soil off their shoes before they leave.
- The pressure in a champagne bottle is amazing 90 pounds per square inch, which is 3 times the automobile tire pressure. In fact, a bottle of Champagne contains about 49 million bubbles. The popped cork from a champagne bottle can travel as fast as 60 miles per hour.
- Japanese doctors have observed patients with “auto-brewery syndrome,” in which high levels of candida yeast in the intestines churn out so much alcohol that they can cause drunkenness.
- People with blue eyes have been found to have higher alcohol tolerance.
- Amsterdam pays alcoholics in beer to clean streets: 5 cans of beer for a day’s work, plus 10 Euro.
- Alcohol is prohibited in the UK Parliament with one exception: the chancellor can drink while delivering the annual budget statement.
- Sir Winston Churchill was one of the world’s heaviest drinkers while Adolf Hitler was one of the world’s best-known abstainers from alcohol.
- Abraham Lincoln held a liquor license and operated several taverns.
- The amazing fact is that the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous demanded alcohol during the last few days of his life.
- Alexander the Great once held a drinking contest among his soldiers. When it was over, amazingly 42 people had died from alcohol poisoning.
- In the 1600’s thermometer used to be filled with brandy instead of mercury.
- In 1985 there were fewer than 50 beer brewers in the US. Today there are nearly 30000.
- The word “toast,” which means wishing good health originated in ancient Rome. A piece of toasted bread was literally dropped into wine back then.
- Drinking a banana milkshake is a perfect cure for hangovers.
- The phrase mind your p’s and q’s can also trace its roots back to alcohol. In England, pubs serve liquor in pint and quart sizes. If a customer became unruly, it used to be common for a bartender to tell that customer to mind their own pints and quarts. Over time, the saying was shortened and usage expanded.
- In outer space, there exists a gigantic cloud of alcohol that can be used to produce 400 trillion pints of beer. Amazingly it extends nearly 300 billion miles across.
- The world record for alcohol consumption is by Andre the Giant, who drank 156 beers in one sitting (over 73 liters/16 gallons).
- As part of an advertising campaign, Molson, a Canadian beer company, strategically placed ‘beer fridges’ around Europe that only Canadian passports could unlock.
- The amazing fact is that if an ant is drunk, a fellow comrade will carry him back to the nest to sleep off the alcohol.
- Scientist Niels Bohr was “given a house next door to the Carlsberg brewing company, and had a pipeline running from the brewery into the house so that he could have a never-ending supply of fresh beer on tap”.
- Amazingly even a small amount of alcohol placed on a scorpion will make it go crazy and sting itself to death.
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