- Coffee is the world’s second most valuable traded commodity, only behind petroleum.
- Coffee beans aren’t beans. They are fruit pits.
- Energy drinks still don’t have as much caffeine as a Starbucks coffee.
- Drinking a cup of caffeinated coffee significantly improves blood flow.
- Coffee is most effective if consumed between 9:30 am and 11:30 am.
- The world consumes close to 2.25 billion cups of coffee every day.
- The first webcam was created in Cambridge to check the status of a coffee pot.
- In the beginning, Starbucks spent more money on health insurance for its employees than on coffee beans.
- The name “Cappuccino” comes from the resemblance of the drink to the clothing of the Capuchin monks.
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- Instant Coffee was invented by a man called George Washington around 1910.
- Coffee doesn’t taste like it smells because saliva wipes out half of the flavor.
- There’s a Coffee Shop in France where not saying “Hello” and “Please” makes your coffee more expensive.
- In Korea and Japan, there is a Cat Cafe where you can go to drink coffee and hang out with cats for hours.
- New Yorkers drink almost 7 times more coffee than other cities in the US.
- 54% of Americans drink coffee every day.
- If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough energy to heat one cup of coffee.
- In the beginning, Starbucks only sold roasted whole coffee beans.
- The word “Coffee” comes from the Arabic for “wine of the bean”.
- Without its smell, coffee would have only a sour or bitter taste due to the organic acids. Try it: hold your nose as you take a sip.
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- Brazil has been the largest producer of coffee for the last 150 years.
- 50% of the caffeine you’ve consumed may be cleared from your body within 5 hours, but it will take over a day to fully eliminate it from your system.
- Two cups of coffee a day were found to reduce the risk of alcohol-related cirrhosis by 43%.
- 20% of office coffee mugs contain fecal bacteria.
- It takes about 37 gallons (140 liters) of water to grow the coffee beans and process them to make one cup of coffee.
- Drinking 2 to 4 cups of coffee daily has been found to drop the risk of suicide by 50% compared to non-coffee drinkers.
- In the 17th century Ottoman Empire, drinking coffee was punishable by death.
- Starbucks offers 87,000 different drink combinations.
- Men who drink 6 or more cups of coffee daily decrease their risk of developing prostate cancer by 20%, a study found.
- 25 million small producers rely on coffee for a living worldwide.
- Too much coffee and stress can produce higher levels of hallucination.
