7 Cool Things About Coffee

Coffee is the small bean that’s gotten a hold of so much of our lives; some say around 2.25 billion coffee cups are consumed daily on earth. We sure do love its smell and the jolt it provides us in the morning. Therefore, we thought we’d present you with some cool things we found out about it.

Although we say coffee bean, it’s actually a fruit.

Coffee beans are not beans at all. Coffee comes from the pit of bright red cherries. They are called beans just because they resemble other beans.

Before it was drunk, coffee was actually eaten.

The first people to have consumed coffee are believed to be African. But instead of drinking it, they ground it up and combined it with fat to make an energy food.

Dancing goats led to the discovery of coffee.

It’s believed that Ethiopian goat herders discovered coffee. They found their goats dancing about after eating the cherries from a specific type of bush.

Lack of coffee is grounds for divorce.

A long time ago in Turkey, coffee was such a popular drink that a wife can divorce a husband if he couldn’t provide her with enough coffee.

Coffee can be used as fuel.

Earlier, British scientists built a car that ran on coffee, and last year a British start-up company created enough coffee oil from discarded coffee grounds to run a bus for one whole year.

It took a while for it to be called coffee.

The drink was known as ‘qahwah’ in the Arab world, when it arrived in Turkey it was called ‘kahveh,’ when the Dutch got a hold of it, they called it ‘koffie,’ and later on the English termed it ‘coffee’ as we call it now.

The first webcam was created to observe a coffee pot.

The first webcam was invented by a couple of Cambridge University students. There was a coffee machine in the corridor outside their room, and they just didn’t want to take a trip to the machine to find it empty. So they came up with a webcam that allowed them to check the machine from their room.

The poop of a Sumatran wild cat is involved in the making of the world’s most expensive coffee.

Indonesia’s Luwak coffee is considered to be the world’s most expensive coffee. And yes, a type of cat called Luwak eats the beans, the beans get fermented inside the stomach of the cat and then, the cat poops it out, and a bit of cleaning and processing later, an expensive cup of coffee is produced.