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100+ AMAZING FACTS

ABOUT COFFEE

of the Americans drink coffee every day

55%

It takes 40 coffee beans

to make even one cup of espresso

It has been estimated it would take

What the Level of Caffeine in Coffee Depends on?

70 cups of coffee to kill a 154-pound (70 kg) person

Most of the world’s coffee

is made in Brazil

The famous “Cappuccino” is named

after the Capuchin monks

because of the similarity

of their clothing and the drink

Irish coffee hasn’t always been

it was originally invented to help Americans warm up on their chilly flights back home

a long-standing tradition in Ireland

The coffee mugs in the offices may contain faecal bacteria

with a probability higher than 20%

World's Most Expensive Coffee is Made From Elephant Dung

Drinking coffee meant a sure death sentence

in the Ottoman Empire during the 17th century

Decaf coffee isn’t completely decaf

There is a small amount of caffeine in decaf coffee, but not nearly as much as a regular cup of brewed coffee. Your decaf cup of coffee can have 8.6 to 13.9 MG of caffeine.

smokers process coffee almost twice as fast as non-smokers do, and women process caffeine faster than men

Coffee doesn’t have the same effect on everyone

Caffeine can ease muscle pain

If you’ve got a squat goal to beat at the gym, treat yourself to a cup of eight-ounce coffee with a splash of your favorite creamer beforehand.

The trade of coffee takes the second place in the world

just behind the petroleum

One cup of coffee needs

and process with more than 37 gallons water

coffee beans which are grown

There are more flavors of coffee

However, a day hasn’t properly started or ended without either of these favorites

than there are wine flavors

“Espresso” is an Italian word which literary means “forced out”

Colombia is the second largest producer of coffee in the world

The Columbian Exchange was the widespread transfer of plants, animals, culture, human populations, technology, and ideas between the Americas and the Old World in the 15th and 16th centuries, related to European colonization and trade after Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage.

and Before the “Columbian exchange” took place, there was no coffee in Columbia

One of the most expensive coffees in the world

is produced by the excrements of the Sumatran wildcat

Who is Joe from the proverbial “cup of Joe”?

Joe stands for Joseph Daniels who was secretary of the US Navy. He wanted to affirm the morality in the Navy, therefore increased the number of chaplains, discouraged the prostitution in the naval bases, and banned the consumption of alcohol.

“As a substitute, stewards increased their purchases of coffee, among other beverages, and Daniels’s name became linked to the daily drink of millions around the world. A cup of coffee became disparagingly known as ‘a cup of Joseph Daniels,’ and as legend has it, this was soon shortened to a ‘cup of Joe.”

Josephus Daniels: His Life and Times, Lee Craig

The first webcam was created in Cambridge

to check the status of a coffee pot

There's a Coffee Shop in France where not saying "hello" and "please" makes your coffee more expensive!

The word "coffee" comes from the Arabic for "wine of the bean".

Coffee loses 70% of its flavor

within two minutes

The Netherlands is the world's largest per capita consumer of coffee, averaging 2.4 cups of coffee per person per day

Which is only slightly less awesome

Before coffee caught on in the US in the 1700s, beer was breakfast drink of choice.

Teddy Roosevelt is and was the greatest American coffee drinker

consuming a gallon a day.

But you probably shouldn't attempt to do that.

How to Make the Perfect Cappuccino?

New Yorkers drink almost 7 times more coffee than other cities in the US

Hawaii is the only state that commercially grows coffee

If her husband didn't provide enough coffee

In the ancient Arab culture there was only one way a woman could legally divorce

Coffee beans are actually the pit of a berry, which makes them a fruit

Brewed espresso has 2.5% fat

while filtered coffee contains 0.6% fat

Johan Sebastian Bach wrote a cantata about a woman who was addicted to coffee

Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht (Be still, stop chattering), also known as the Coffee Cantata is in its essentiality a comic opera.

Unlike the hip 20-something Baristas in the US

in Italy the average Barista age is 48, and it is a very respected profession

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