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Our happy hour fact to amaze your drinking buddies with.

Drinking a moderate amount of alcohol increases the likelihood that your mind wanders, while reducing the likelihood that you're aware that your mind is wandering.

A group of men -- half of whom had consumed alcohol, half received a placebo -- were told to read a portion of "War and Peace" on a computer and hit a button whenever they found themselves zoning out. The group was also prompted at random intervals by researchers who were attempting to catch the participants zoning out before they noticed themselves.

The participants who had drunk the alcohol were caught 25 percent more than those who consumed the placebo. This illustrated, among other things, why drunk driving can be so dangerous.

However, we believe it was Confucius who once said, "A good way to cut through the haze is to drink so much you become aware you are aware of nothing."

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