Aliens, moose, and mixers: Here are some facts about alcohol that will make you the toast of your local.
Diet mixers get you more drunk.
According to study conducted in early 2013, spirits mixed with diet pop gets you 18% drunker than spirits mixed with the 'full fat' varieties. The theory is that your body recognises full-sugar drinks as food, which slows down alcohol absorption, whereas diet drinks don't. So before you tease anyone for ordering a vodka and Diet Coke, remember: they're drinking the hard stuff.
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Wanting to get drunk is natural. Possibly.
The 'drunken monkey hypothesis' put forward by Dr. Robert Dudley of the University of California suggests that human attraction to ethanol (pure alcohol) may have a genetic basis.
He argued that the primate ancestor of homo sapiens had a high dependence on fruit as a food source, and consequently developed a genetic attraction to ripe and overripe fruit, which contains - you guessed it - ethanol. Hurrah.
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Big lads aren't necessarily the biggest drinkers.
A beer belly might mean you've consumed a lot in the past, but it doesn't mean you can automatically handle more alcohol in one go than someone slimmer. In fact, a lean person will be less affected by booze because water-rich muscle tissues absorb alcohol effectively, preventing it from reaching the brain.
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Aliens are at it too.
Or at least they could be, if they wanted. Astronomers discovered that there is quite a lot of ethanol in space. As much as 400 trillion trillion beers worth actually, floating around in an interstellar cloud roughly 10,000 light-years from Earth.
Source: apod.nasa.gov
