An alcoholic drink (or alcoholic beverage) is a drink that contains the recreational drug ethanol, a type of alcohol produced by fermentation of grains, fruits, or other sources of sugar.
It only takes 6 minutes for brain cells to react to alcohol.
Alcohol kills one person every 10 seconds worldwide.
Alcohol is not digested; it gets absorbed directly into the bloodstream.
About one-third of designated drivershave at least one drink while carrying the title.
48% of the world's populationolder than 15 claim to have never consumed alcohol.
Alcohol doesn't make you forget anything. When you get blackout drunk, the brain temporarily losesthe ability to create memories.
Each Russian consumes 18 litres (4.8 US gal) of alcohol per year, doubling what experts consider dangerous.
There are over 500,000 alcohol-related deaths in Russia each year.
People with blue eyes have a higher alcohol tolerance.
Over 30% of cancer could be prevented by avoiding tobacco and alcohol, having a healthy diet and physical activity.
Beer was notconsidered an alcoholic beverage in Russia until 2013.
The strongest beer in the world has a 67.5% alcoholcontent.
In the U.K., it is legal for kids over 5 years old to drink alcohol at home or on other private premises.
Amsterdam pays alcoholics in beer to clean streets: 5 cans of beer for a day's work, plus €10 and tobacco
The U.S. government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition in the 20s and 30s, killing over 10,000 people.
Alcohol Poisoning Kills 6 Americans Every Day.
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.
In late 19th-Century, millions of American children learned in schoolthat just one taste of alcohol could lead to blindness, madness or even spontaneous combustion.
The highest blood alcohol content ever recorded was .91%, more than twice the typical lethal limit and eleven times more than legally drunk.
There's a cruise ship that runs between Stockholm, Sweden, and Helsinki, Finland, just to purchase cheap alcohol.
Sigmund Freud recommended Cocaineas treatment for depression, alcoholism, and morphine addiction.
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.
Alcohol is prohibited in the UK Parliament with one exception: the chancellor can drink while delivering the annual budget statement.
People drink more slowly when alcoholis served in straight-sided glasses than when it's served in glasses with curved sides, a research found.
Many ancient Egyptian Pharaohs were overweightand unhealthy, in contrast to their typical depiction, due to a sugary diet of alcohol, bread and honey.
31% of rock star deaths are related to drugsor alcohol.
During prohibition, the U.S. Congresshad their own bootlegger so senators and congressmen could still drink alcohol.
1 in 5 top 100 country songs will refer to alcohol.
Giving up Alcohol for just one month can improve liver function, decrease blood pressure and reduce the risk of liver disease and diabetes.
Alexander the Great once held a drinking contest among his soldiers. When it was over, 42 people had died from alcohol poisoning.
The top 10% of American alcohol consumers ingest about 10 drinks per day.
The peak blood alcoholconcentration 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 alcoholcontent.
About 50% of Asianshave trouble metabolizing alcohol due to a missing liver enzyme needed to process it.
3.5% of cancer deaths worldwide are attributable to the consumption of alcohol. The World Health Organization has classified alcohol as a Group 1 carcinogen.
The founder of Alcoholics Anonymousdemanded alcoholduring the last few days of his life.
By cutting down on alcohol, keeping a healthy bodyweight, and exercising, you can reduce the risk of cancer by 30%.
Alcohol consumed with food is absorbed more slowly, because it spends a longer time in the stomach.
Comet Lovejoy released as much alcoholas the amount found in 500 bottles of wine every second during its peak activity.
Coffee has been found to reverse liver damage caused by alcohol.
Jose Cuervo is still produced on land granted to the family by the King of Spain in 1758. It was the first business to receive a license to produce tequila and is the oldest family run business in Mexico.
13 people died of alcohol poisoning in 1875 in Ireland when a brewery caught fire causing whiskey to flow through the streets.
If the Ancient Persians decided something while drunk, they had a rule to reconsider it when sober. If they made a decision sober, they would reconsider it while drunk.
30% of American adults do not consume any alcoholever.
A century ago, men were 3 times as likely as women to have a problem with alcohol. Among people born in the 1990s, the odds are about the same.
Home-brewed liquor, or moonshine, accounts for almost 30% of the world's alcohol drinking.
The Aztecs had penalties for beingdrunk which ranged from head-shaving to the death penalty.
Meteorito is a Cabernet Sauvignon winethat was aged in a barrel with a 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite for a year.
The co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous believed LSD could be used to cure alcoholics and claimed it cured his depression.
Spraying your clothes with vodka can make themsmell better, since vodka kills odor-causing bacteria on the spot.
When Winston Churchill paid a visit to the U.S. in 1931, during the height of Alcohol Prohibition, he got around itafter being hit by an oncoming car. The doctorprescribed him 6 shots of alcohol at mealtimes.
Milkshakes were originally alcoholic.
Snake wine is an alcoholic beverage produced by infusing whole snakes in rice wine or grain alcohol, which is considered an important curative according to Traditional Chinese medicine.
U.S. television networks allow alcoholto be advertised as long as no one in the commercial is actuallydrinking it.
The word "vodka" is a diminutive form of the Slavic word "voda" (water), interpreted as "little water."
Flies drink alcoholwhen they are sexually frustrated.