Alcohol

At an auction in Scotland, the targeted world record for a bottle of whisky was missed. According to the auction house, the highest bid for the 0.75-litre bottle of "The Macallan 1926 Fine and Rare" was ultimately one million pounds (the equivalent of about 1.16 million euros).

In autumn 2019, a bottling from the same cask had gone under the hammer for just under 1.5 million pounds. The whisky comes from a legendary stock, for enthusiasts it is said to be the "holy grail".

An international study also states that Englishmen and Scotsmen got seriously drunk most often in 2019.

With 33.8 times in a year, the Scots were slightly ahead of the English (33.7) on average, according to the Global Drug Survey. More than 90,000 people in more than 25 countries were surveyed at the end of 2019 for the survey, which was published Monday. Getting drunk was defined in the survey like this: So much alcohol was drunk that physical and mental abilities were massively impaired - including, for example, sense of balance or speech.