1. You either love coffee, or hate it. The third option is not present.
2. Coffee as a commodity is the second most popular in the world. In the first position - crude oil.
3. Coffee plants can only grow in countries where there is no winter frosts. That's why coffee is grown closer to the equator, between the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn.
4. Cultivated only two varieties of coffee beans - Arabica and Robusta.
5. The coffee was not always drink. When it was first discovered in Africa, people milled coffee cherries (berries), added animal fat and made from a mixture of balls, which are then eaten. Perhaps it was the first energy snack in the world.
6. Once learned from coffee extract caffeine, some manufacturers began to supply coffee caffeine pharmaceutical companies and companies producing soft drinks.
7. Instant coffee as we know it today, has been around for 250 years, walking in large quantities it has only recently started to drink. It was first introduced in the UK in 1771. A first series of instant coffee has been patented in the United States at the beginning of the XX century, to be precise, in 1910.
8. Most Finns drink coffee, not Americans, as many believe.
9. We scientists have to design both from coffee to make biodiesel, so in the future, so the fuel can refuel the car.
10. Probably, if you will give your cat a liquid coffee every day, it can extend its life. Why is this so? According to the Guinness Book of Records, the oldest cat named creme puff drinking coffee every morning. She lived to be 38 years old. In her hostess was still a cat, grandfather, Rex Allen. It is this cat had previously held the world record as the oldest in the world. They had the same diet. Perhaps it was the coffee helped these two animals to live so long.
11. In the XVII century in London a woman pushed a petition against the coffee due to the fact that their men frequented the coffee houses. Women believed that it was drinking establishments converted their husbands in "useless stuff" for them. However, the proposed ban is not in force.
In fact, there have been other attempts to ban coffee, and it was banned in Sweden in 1746. The ban does not only drink, but also the equipment for cooking, coffee pots, cups and saucers.
There was coffee colorful history, but fortunately today it is readily available.
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