@Milan1999 30 May 2021 more from that month

1. According to legend, Honore de Balzac drank 50 cups of coffee a day so he could stay awake and keep writing. The same number of cups of coffee a day is attributed to the French philosopher Voltaire. 2. In 1932, Brazil could not afford to send its athletes to the Los Angeles Olympics. Still, they had a creative idea. The boat with the athletes was filled with coffee and sold along the way. 3. In 1674, in the Women Against Coffee Petition, women in Britain tried to ban coffee from all men under the age of 60, claiming that coffee turned them into ‘useless corpses’ and that they began to ‘gossip more than women’. 4. According to legend, a shepherd from Ethiopia first discovered coffee in the 9th century when he noticed that from this plant his goats became hyperactive and insane. 5. Coffee is a psychoactive substance. Large doses can cause hallucinations… and can even kill you. 6. The lethal dose of caffeine is about 100 cups of coffee. 7. People began adding milk to coffee in the 1600s, when a French physician began proposing this practice to his patients. 8. In ancient Arab culture, there was only one way for a woman to legally divorce: If her husband did not provide enough coffee. 9. Coffee grows in the shape of berries on a bush - which means that coffee is actually a fruit. 10. The word coffee is derived from the Arabic word qahhwat al-bun, which is then abbreviated to qahwa. When it came to Turkey it became coffee, then in the Netherlands koffie… Some historians still believe that the original word Kaffa, which comes from Ethiopia, is considered to be the main culprit for the discovery of coffee.