Did you know that coffee doesn’t just give us humans a buzz? No siree. BEES get a buzz when drinking coffee and what’s even more interesting is that it supercharges their long-term memory! How else do you think they find their way back to the same plant over and over again?
During Turkish wedding ceremonies, grooms were made to vow to always provide their brides with coffee. Failure to do so could result in divorce.
In ancient Arab culture, a woman could only divorce her husband if he didn’t like coffee enough. Talk about extreme love for coffee!
Beethoven was such an ardent coffee lover that he’d count 60 beans per cup before making his brew.
Exfoliate your skin with moist coffee grounds at least twice a week, rinse and watch your face glow.
In 1511, coffee was banned in Mecca on the grounds of preventing free thinking and people getting together to hang out.
There has been an indication that coffee can actually be used to fuel a car. Not now, of course, but maybe someday in the future. Kind of reassuring, don’t you think, to imagine a world where one day we might never have to worry about running out of fuel?
Teddy Roosevelt drank a gallon of coffee every day. (Not something you’d want to try today. Just putting it out there.
Coffee was so scarce in Germany during WWII that ‘coffee bombs’ were dropped from planes to turn the people against the government.
During WWII American soldiers would order their espresso watered down because it was too strong for them.