Coffee

- 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.

- 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.

- 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’.

- 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.

- Coffee is a psychoactive substance. Large doses can cause hallucinations… and can even kill you.

- The lethal dose of caffeine is about 100 cups of coffee.

- People began adding milk to coffee in the 1600s, when a French physician began proposing this practice to his patients.

- In ancient Arab culture, there was only one way for a woman to legally divorce: If her husband did not provide enough coffee.

- Coffee grows in the shape of berries on a bush - which means that coffee is actually a fruit.

- 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.

- Originally, coffee was eaten. African tribes would roll coffee beans in animal fat to get ‘energy balls’.

- There are more than 50 types of coffee in the world, and 70% of the world consumes "Arabica" which has a mild taste and strong aroma. The remaining 30% drink "Robusta" which is more bitter, but therefore has 50% more caffeine.

-. In the world, oil is traded the most, followed by coffee.

- George Washington invented instant coffee. But this George was not an American president, but a Belgian who lived in Guatemala in 1906.

- Espresso is not a special type of coffee. It’s just the way coffee is prepared.

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French diplomat Talleyrand once said: "Coffee is good when it is black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel and sweet as love."

- Contrary to popular belief, light roasted coffee actually has more caffeine than dark roasted coffee.

- 40% of the world’s coffee is produced in Colombia and Brazil.

-. Kopi luwak, the most expensive coffee in the world ($ 550-700 per kilogram) is produced by feeding Sumatran cats coffee, and then digesting it, and people collecting and selling it…

-. Every year, more than 500 billion cups of coffee are drunk in the world, and more than half are drunk with breakfast.

-The first tavern (cafe) in the world was opened in 1475 in Constantinople / Constantinople (today's Istanbul).

-. The Turks call their cafes "schools for the wise."

- Coffee was originally considered a miracle cure in Yemen and Arabia, and people drank it only on the advice of doctors. Many also saw it as a stimulus for religious visions.

- When the first tavern opened in England in 1652, women were barred from entering. The only way to stay inside was to work as waitresses.

- The Dutch were the first Europeans to start trading coffee.

- The coffee industry employs about 25 million people worldwide.

- Americans are the world's leading consumer of coffee. They drink about 450 million cups of coffee every day. The other two largest consumers are the French and the Germans. These three countries drink about 65% of the world's coffee. If we take into account the consumption of coffee per person, the Finns are absolute champions with almost 10 kilograms of coffee per year (per person!).

- In Africa, coffee beans are soaked in water, mixed with spices and then served as candies.

- 65 countries in the world grow coffee. All are located in the equatorial area.

- Cafes are responsible for the American and French Revolutions.

- Statistics related to people who drink coffee every day: 68% of people drink coffee within an hour after waking up. 57% of people sugar coffee. 35% of people drink black coffee. Three out of five people claim they can’t start the day without coffee.