10 fascinating drink facts

1. A 375ml beer has fewer calories than two slices of bread and contains no fat.

2. A bottle of champagne contains 49 million bubbles and has a pressure three times that of a car tyre.

3. Coca-cola was originally green.

4. Drinking too much water too quickly can lead to water intoxication. This occurs when water dilutes the sodium level in the bloodstream and causes an imbalance of water in the brain.

5. Guinness, after pouring, produces bubbles that sink to the bottom.

6. It takes, on average, 91 squirts from a cow’s udder to yield one litre of milk.

7. Instant coffee was invented by Japanese American chemist Satori Kato of Chicago in 1901.

8. Yelling for eight years, seven months and six days produces enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

9. A raisin in a glass of champagne will keep floating to the top and then sinking to the bottom.

10. Terri Comer, 42, of Oregan was arrested in 2008 with a .72 blood alcohol level. This seems to be the highest blood alcohol reading ever recorded for a person not dead. (This is not a challenge.)


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