Interesting Facts About Alcohol You Never Knew

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

-People with blue eyes have a higher alcohol tolerance.

-It only takes 6 minutes for brain cells to react to alcohol.

-Alcohol is not digested; it gets absorbed directly into the bloodstream.

-48% of the world’s population older than 15 claims to have never consumed alcohol.

-The strongest beer in the world has a 67.5% alcohol content.

-Spraying your clothes with vodka can make your them smell better since vodka kills odor-causing bacteria on the spot.

-Coffee has been found to reverse liver damage caused by alcohol.

-The peak blood alcohol concentration level can be 3 times higher in people who drink with an empty stomach than in those who had a meal before drinking.

-As a rule of thumb, darker and bitter beers have higher alcohol content.

-Alcohol consumed with food is absorbed more slowly because it spends a longer time in the stomach.

-People drink more slowly when alcohol is served in straight-sided glasses than when it’s served in curved sided glasses, research found

-Home-brewed liquor or moonshine accounts almost 30% of the world’s alcohol drinking.

-Giving up alcohol for just one month can improve liver function, decrease blood pressure and reduce the risk of liver disease and diabetes.

-There’s a cruise ship that runs between Stockholm, Sweden, Finland, and Helsinki just to purchase cheap alcohol.

-1 in 5 top 100 country songs will refer to alcohol.

-The top 10% of American alcohol consumers ingest about 10 drinks per day.