51 Insane Facts You Didn’t Know About Alcohol

Here's 51 facts about your old pal alcohol! Some of these are completely nuts, check them out for youself!

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

(2) Amsterdam pays alcoholics in beer to clean streets: 5 cans of beer for a day's work, plus €10 and tobacco.

(3) Vladimir The Great, Prince of Kiev, considered converting to Christianity or Islam. He sent envoys to study both religions, but upon hearing that Islam forbade alcohol, he got baptized.

(4) The U.S. government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition in the 20s and 30s, killing over 10,000 people.

(5) The production of alcohol has been traced back at least 12,000 years.

(6) The word “toast,” which means wishing good health originated in ancient Rome. A piece of toasted bread was literally dropped into wine back then.

(7) Alexander the Great once held adrinking contest among his soldiers. When it was over, 42 people had diedfrom alcohol poisoning.

(8) 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.

(9) Alcohol is prohibited in the UK Parliament with one exception: the chancellor can drink while delivering the annual budget statement.

(10) Most people think that drinking alcohol raises the body temperature. Alcohol actually lowers the body temperature.

(11) Each Russian consumes 18 litres (4.8 US gal) of alcohol per year, doubling what experts consider dangerous.

(12) There are over 500,000 alcohol-related deaths in Russia every year!

(13) Beer was not considered analcoholic beverage in Russia until 2013.

(14) Frederick the Great, who was the king of Prussia, was so enamored by alcohol that he tried to ban coffee in an attempt to get everyone in Prussia to drink liquor instead.

(15) People with blue eyes have a higher tolerance for alcohol.

(16) The national anthem of United States was written to the tune of a drinking song.

(17) The pressure in a champagne bottle is 90 pounds per square inch, that is three times the pressure in automobile tires.

(18) Sigmund Freud recommended Cocaine as treatment for depression, alcoholism, and morphine addiction.

(19) Adolf Hitler was one of the world’s best known abstainers from alcohol. Never touched a drop!

(20) The strongest beer in the world has a 67.5%!

(21) The longest permanent bar is 405 feet and 10 inches. It is located in Ohio. Some suggest that the longest bar is in Illinois which is 684 feet.

(22) The first recruiting station of the U.S. Marines was a bar.

(23) The highest blood alcohol content ever recorded was .91%, more than twicethe typical lethal limit and eleven times more than legally drunk

(24) The world’s oldest known recipe is for beer.

(25) In the U.K., it is legalfor kids over 5 years old to drink alcoholat home or on other private premises.

(26) Vikings enjoyed alcohol, but they did not drink it from a mug, a bottle or any other traditional method. Instead, they preferred to toast to their victories by imbibing their favorite alcoholic beverages from the skulls of their defeated enemies.

(27) Hangover cures date back almost as far as alcohol itself.

• Ancient Romans believed that eating a fried canary would take care of their hangover symptoms.

• Ancient Greeks were believers in the power of cabbage.

• In France they put salt into a strong cup of coffee.

• In Puerto Rico some drinkers lift their drinking arm and rub half a lemon under it.

(None of these cures actually fixes any of the symptoms of a hangover)

(28) The term honeymoon traces its roots back to ancient Babylon. It was a tradition for the soon to be father-in-law to supply his daughter’s fiancé with a month’s supply of mead. This time period was referred to as the honey month, and that phrase eventually morphed into what we now call a honeymoon.

(29) United States has the highest minimum drinking age in the entire world.

(30) In 1964, Congress declared Bourbon to be the official spirit of the United States. Bourbon takes its name from Bourbon County in Kentucky.

(31) Alcohol Poisoning Kills 6 Americans Every Day.

(32) Abraham Lincoln owned and operated several taverns, and John Hancock was a well-known alcohol dealer.

(33) In late 19th-Century, millions of American children learned in schoolthat just one taste of alcohol could lead to blindness, madness or evenspontaneous combustion

(34) During prohibition, the U.S. Congress had their own bootlegger so senators and congressmen could still drink alcohol.

(35) There are 13 minerals that are essential for human life, and all of them can be found in alcohol.

(36) The word brandy is derived from the Dutch word brandewijn; it means burnt wine.

(37) In professional shooting, Alcohol is considered to be a performance-enhancing drug because it relaxes you and slows your heart rate enough to give you an edge.

(38) A bottle of Champagne contains approximately 49 million bubbles.

(39) The founder of Alcoholics Anonymous demanded alcohol during the last few days of his life.

(40) Drinking a glass of milk can cause a person to blow a .02 on a breathalyzer test, and that is enough to cause legal issues in some states.

(41) Beer started selling in bottles starting 1850 and in cans starting 1935.

(42) Anyone under the age of 21 should be careful of taking out trash bags in Missouri. If you are under 21 and the garbage contains an empty bottle of alcohol, you can be charged with illegal possession of alcohol.

(43) In order to make a bottle of wine, you will need to have approximately 600 grapes.

(44) In the 1600’s thermometers used to be filled with brandy instead of mercury.

(45) The term “Dipsomania” refers to abnormal cravings for alcohol.

(46) There is a cloud of alcohol in the outer space which is enough to make four trillion-trillion drinks.

(47) It is illegal to feed alcohol to moose in Alaska and fishes in Ohio.

(48) A mixed drink that contains carbonated drink is absorbed into the body more quickly than straight shots.

(49) Texas state law prohibits taking more than three sips of beer at a time while standing and the use of the word “refreshing” to describe any alcoholic beverage.

(50) Alcohol isn't digested its absorbed straight into the bloodstream.

(51) In the Middle Ages beer was consumed more than water as the alcohol made it safer.