Rainy day here in Lyon so I thought of sharing some interesting facts about coffee. Feel free to add any I've missed.

* Coffee grows in the form of berries on the bush - meaning that the coffee is actually a fruit.
* In ancient Arab culture, there was only one way a woman could legally divorce: If her husband did not provide enough coffee.
* In 1674, in a "Women Against Coffee Petition", women in the UK tried to ban coffee for all men under 60, claiming that coffee had turned them into 'useless corpses' and that they had started 'gossiping over women'.
* Dutch Governor van Horn brought coffee (1706) to Amsterdam, where it was grown in a greenhouse, under artificial conditions.
* One bush of coffee also arrived in Paris - a gift from French King Louis XIV. Considering the plant a valuable rarity, Louis XIV made a special house - a greenhouse in the Jardin des plantes.
* From just one coffee tree - brought from Paris to Martinique (1723) - in just over half a century, as many as eighteen million coffee trees have grown!
* The first coffee roaster in the Balkans was operated in Croatia - in Zagreb (Franck) - in 1892.
* Coffee "luvak" comes from the feces of a civet, a small mammal similar to a rabbit, which feeds only on the fruit of the coffee. Animals do not digest grain that naturally ejects from the digestive tract. After drying and roasting coffee beans, they are used to make a drink that is not as bitter as traditional coffee and has a caramelized or chocolate flavor. to the world. In the market, its price can reach $ 500 per kilogram, making it the most expensive in the world.
* The main ingredient in coffee - caffeine was found by German chemist Runge, to whom Johann Wolfgang Goethe donated some coffee beans. In his lab, Runge found colorless crystals of caffeine in his coffee. Each coffee bean contains caffeine, chlorogenic acids, glycosides, polysaccharides, lipids, trigonellin, amino acids, proteins and minerals (potassium, calcium, magnesium, phosphorus and sulfur).
* Johan Sebastian Bah dedicated his cantata to coffee
* Onore de Balzak drank 50,000 cups while writing "Human Comedy"
* Paul Erdes, Hungarian mathematician used to say that mathematician is a machine for converting coffee to theorems
* In 1675, the King of England ordered the closure of all cafes, on suspicion that conspiracy theories were being run against him
* More than 400 billion coffee is drunk on planet Earth every year

Credits: coffeesesh.com

Everyone has their own version of the origin story of coffee, but one thing is for sure, whoever discovered its effect, billions of people around the world owe it their gratitude.