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10 Interesting Facts About Coffee you might not know

1– Discovered by a Goat

Yup you heard right coffee was first discovered by a goat! More specifically a young goat herder by the name of Kaldi in the 9th-century. He noticed his goats acting strange when they ate the cherries from the coffee tree so he tried it for himself. This story does not show up in writings until the 16th-century but I like the story and it sounds very plausible.

The History Of Coffee!

In the Ethiopian highlands, where the legend of Kaldi, the goatherd, originated, coffee trees grow today as they have for centuries. Though we will never know with certainty, there probably is some truth to the Kaldi legend.

It is said that he discovered coffee after noticing that his goats, upon eating berries from a certain tree, became so spirited that they did not want to sleep at night.

Kaldi dutifully reported his findings to the abbot of the local monastery who made a drink with the berries and discovered that it kept him alert for the long hours of evening prayer.  Soon the abbot had shared his discovery with the other monks at the monastery, and ever so slowly knowledge of the energizing effects of the berries began to spread.  As word moved east and coffee reached the Arabian peninsula, it began a journey which would spread its reputation across the globe.

2 – To grow the coffee beans to produce one cup of coffee it takes approximately 140 liters (37 gallons) of water

This is pretty startling, but when you compare it to eggs – it takes 454 liters (120 U.S. gal) to produce one egg!

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

4 – The lethal dose of caffeine is roughly 100 cups of coffee.

5 – A French doctor in the 1600s suggested Cafe Au Laits for patients, inspiring people to begin adding milk to coffee.

6 – Coffee beans are actually the pit of a berry, which makes them a fruit. The best fruit.

7 – The first webcam was invented at The University of Cambridge to let people know if the coffee pot was full or not.

8 – There is a spa in Japan that lets you bathe in coffee, tea, or wine. I wouldn’t drink it though…

9 – This is the most expensive drink at Starbucks: $23.50, with 16 shots of espresso or 1400mg of caffeine.

10 – Irish coffee was actually invented to warm up cold American plane passengers leaving from Ireland.

Here’s the recipe!