Why do we say that you can’t hold a candle to some people? Why do we sometimes literally miss out on something? Why doesn’t glue stick to a tube? And how far exactly can we see to the horizon?
These are questions that we can get through life without having to answer. But it is not wrong to deal with such rather useless To know to be able to shine – at work, among friends and family or at parties.
In the new BILD series you will learn the most important answers on the more unimportant questions of everyday life. In the first part:
Do mosquitoes actually get drunk when they bite drunk people?
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The surprising answer: Yes! The insects’ nervous systems can also be thrown out of balance by alcohol.
Mosquitoes can drink significantly more than humans relative to their body weight. When the mosquito sucks properly, the amount of liquid in its body doubles.
If these annoying pests consume blood with an alcohol content of one per mille, they themselves will have about 0.5 per mille in their system. They take about 0.005 milliliters of blood from us per sucking process.
Mosquitoes swayed and staggered
This has already been tested in a television experiment: mosquitoes that bit a person who was one per mille drunk did not behave unusually. But then they sucked in an alcohol solution with five per mille and suddenly showed clear behavioral abnormalities – they swayed, staggered, walked in zigzags or even backwards.
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By the way: Several laboratory studies have shown that the malaria mosquito and the tiger mosquito prefer to bite drunk people rather than sober people. Our domestic mosquito, however, is more likely to be attracted by a scent mix of lactic acid, uric acid, ammonia and other metabolic products found in sweat.
Do cows produce more milk when music is playing in the barn?
Yes, classical music in particular calms the animals and this has a positive effect on their milk production.
How many clothes do we actually buy?
On average, each person in Europe buys 65 to 70 new items of clothing per year.
How many grapes do you need for a bottle of wine?
Around 700 grapes have to be picked and processed from the vines to produce just one bottle of wine. That’s about 1 milliliter per grape.
How long can you harvest apples from a tree?
An apple tree is capable of producing apples for more than 100 years. Pretty sustainable.
Can citrus fruit float?
Yes and no. While lemons float on the surface of the water, limes sink.
