Alcohol Facts

Staying awake for 17 hours impairs your cognitive performance as much as having a blood alcohol concentration of 0.05% - roughly equivalent to two glasses of wine.

In Missouri, anyone under 21 who handles household trash containing empty alcohol containers could technically be charged with illegal possession of alcohol under the state's broadly written possession laws.

It is illegal to purchase or consume Jack Daniel's Whiskey in the town in which it is produced!

Orange juice naturally contains a small amount of alcohol.

White wine gets darker as it ages while red wine gets lighter.

One or two alcohol drinks a day can be anti-inflammatory.

Gin has mild diuretic properties due to its juniper berry content. Juniper has been used in traditional medicine for centuries as a natural diuretic to help reduce water retention.

In the 1800's, rum was considered excellent for cleaning hair and keeping it healthy. Brandy was believed to strengthen hair roots.

In Bangladesh, $5 will buy a beer or a first-class train ticket for a cross-country trip.

It is estimated that at any one time, 0.7% of the world's population are drunk.

The Japanese liquor, Mam, uses venomous snakes as one of its main ingredients.

'Vodka' is Russian for 'little water'.

When George W. Bush was 30 years old, he was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol.

In 1955, Bob Hawke was immortalized by the Guinness Book of Records for chugging 2.5 pints of beer in 11 seconds while at Oxford University.

Near the center of the Milky Way exists a gigantic cloud of gas and dust called Sagittarius B2 that contains enough ethyl alcohol to produce 400 trillion trillion pints of beer.

The 'vintage date' on a bottle of wine indicates the year the grapes were picked, not the year of bottling!

Connecticut and Rhode Island never ratified the 18th Amendment (Prohibition).

Vodka was once so central to Russia's economy that alcohol sales contributed up to 40% of government revenue during Tsarist times and a third during the Soviet era. Today, oil and gas have replaced it, accounting for 40-50% of the federal budget.

There was a bear called Wojtek who was adopted by Polish soldiers during WW2. It carried ammunition, wrestled with soldiers, and drank beer.

In 2011, Russia acknowledged beer as an alcoholic beverage. Before then, any drink under 10% volume was considered a soft drink.

Drinking a banana milkshake can help ease hangover symptoms by replenishing potassium, providing natural sugars for energy, and coating the stomach.

1 in 3 vegetarians admit to eating meat when drunk.

The world record for alcohol consumption is by Andre the Giant, who drank 156 beers in one sitting (over 73 liters/16 gallons).

When you get blackout drunk, you don't actually forget anything; your brain wasn't "recording" in the first place.