alcohol, n.Trivia

Alcohol breath is from the ethanol diffusing out of the blood in the lungs. It has nothing whatsoever to do with the stomach so eating cannot help to mask it.

Sex and alcohol make people happier than having kids and religion, according to researchers from the University of Canterbury.

The world's most consumed liquor is Baijiu. 10.8 billion liters were sold in 2018, more than all whisky, gin, tequila, rum, and vodka combined. It is drunk mostly in China.

Highly intelligent people tend to drink more alcohol.

Mixing alcohol with diet soda will get you drunker than mixing it with regular soda.

Male fruit flies look for alcohol to consume after being rejected for sex.

In Russia Until 2011, anything containing less than 10% alcohol was considered to be a foodstuff and not alcoholic.

Alcohol is compatible with many antibiotics. The warning isn’t universal.

Alcohol affects your brain in six minutes

Giving up alcohol for just one month can improve liver function, decrease blood pressure and reduce your risk of diabetes, according to researchers from University College London.

Alcohol is fast-acting -- it only takes six minutes for alcohol to affect your brain.

The top 10% of drinkers account for more than half of all alcohol consumed in the U.S. Which equates to them consuming an average 73.85 drinks per week

bees will seek out alcohol and get drunk--and "bouncers" at the hive refuse to let them in until they sober up

When a church put an anti-beer ad in the newspaper a local brewery accepted it as a $1 off coupon

Alcohol doesn't make you forget anything. When you get blackout drunk, the brain temporarily loses the ability to create memories

Marijuana prevents vomiting, so drinking alcohol while smoking weed has the potential to lead to deadly alcohol poisoning.