26 Sep 9 Crazy Coffee Facts
There are lots of names for coffee: cuppa, brew, dirt, high-test, java, joe, and mud. There are lots of ways to take your coffee: black, iced, light and sweet, milk and sugar, shot of espresso, half-calf, and non-fat. Whatever you call it or however you order it, people just love coffee. Here are some things you may not know about the world’s second favorite drinks (right behind water).
- The beginning of coffee lore stared in Ethiopia. Shepherds saw that their goats where “dancing” after eating coffee berries and therefore realized they true effects of caffeine.
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- Coffee is actually a fruit! It comes from the pit of a berry.
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- King Charles II banned coffee in 1675. He believed coffee shops were where people were meeting to conspire against him.
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- Espresso is not a type of coffee as most people think. It is just the way that the coffee is prepared where you shoot hot pressurized coffee through very finely ground coffee.
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- You can swim in coffee in Japan. At the Yunessun Spa you can have coffee poured all over you.
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- The first mass produced coffee was invented by George Washington. Even though they say it wasn’t very good, they still sent packages over to American Soldiers during WWI.
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- You can actually die from coffee. If you drink 100 cups, it is a lethal dose.
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- NYC drinks the most coffee in the world. Actually New Yorkers consume 7 times more than everyone else.
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- The world consumes over 500 billion cups of coffee a year. And almost half of those cups are drunk during breakfast.
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