Is alcohol also medicine? 8 little-known facts about alcohol

Maybe they don't help you buy or drink wine, but they can become cool topics of conversation at the wine table.

1 According to archaeologists, fermented alcoholic beverages first appeared 100,000 years ago. At that time, "humans" had not even completed their evolution and had just begun to possess the characteristics of modern humans.

2 Why do humans love wine? A study called "Drunken Monkey" shows that humans' love of wine is genetic, because human ancestors have a natural desire for energy foods.

3 In Malaysia, there is a tree shrew that consumes a large amount of naturally fermented nectar every night. The alcohol content of the nectar is about 9 glasses of wine. Can you drink more than the tree shrew?

4 Even for a person who does not drink alcohol, there will be 0.01 to 0.03 mg of alcohol in every 100 ml of blood. This is because the human digestive system also has fermentation function.

5 Fat people get drunk more easily than thin people because the high water content + muscles absorb alcohol more effectively, thus preventing the brain from being affected.

6 Before 1916, whiskey and brandy were prescription drugs listed in the pharmacopoeia in the United States and were generally used to regulate nutritional problems in the body.

7 In Sweden, unfinished alcohol will be recycled by the government, distilled to extract ethanol, which is then mixed with gasoline and provided to gas stations.

8. Don't stare at the cork on the bottle. The air pressure in a champagne bottle is about 90 pounds per square inch, which is three times the tire pressure of a car. If the cork pops out, the destructive power will definitely exceed that of a bullet.