Coffee Fact #1: When shopping for perfume, take some coffee with you in your bag and have a good sniff in between smelling each perfume to refresh your nose!
Coffee Fact #2: Sprinkle spent coffee grounds around the base of your garden plants and it will stop snails and slugs from munching them!
Coffee Fact #3: A mixture of coffee grounds and sugar, fed to a pot plant and watered regularly, will revive houseplants that have turned yellow in winter.
Coffee Fact #4: Some of the worlds most powerful business, including Lloyds of London and the New York Stock Exchange, started life as a coffee houses.
Coffee Fact #5: Vincent Van Gogh was a big frequenter of the café society and famously said “I have tried to show the café as a place where one can go mad.”
Coffee Fact #6: Pope Clement VIII loved coffee and authorised its use.
Coffee Fact #7: Revolutions have been planned in coffee houses, namely the French and the American Revolutions.
Coffee Fact #8: At the end of the 16th century records show there were at least 500 cafes in Istanbul alone. The first European cafes were opened by immigrants from Asia around 1650.
Coffee Fact #9: A coffee tree has a lifespan of about 50 to 70 years.
Coffee Fact #10: The coffee cherries turn from yellow to orange and then bright red, 6 - 8 months after flowering.
Coffee Fact #11: When a coffee tree is in bloom, the coffee tree is covered with 30,000 white flowers which begin to develop into fruit after 24 - 36 hours.
Coffee Fact #12: A coffee tree can flower eight times in any one year - depending on rainfall.
Coffee Fact #13: There are 900 different flavours of arabica coffee beans. Complex and very volatile, they deteriorate if exposed to air and light.
Coffee Fact #14: The aromas in coffee develop at the 10th minute of roasting.
Coffee Fact #15:Coffee beans increase in volume during roasting by 18.60%.
Coffee Fact #16: Coffee beans are the second most widely used product in the world after oil.
Coffee Fact #17: Coffee was worth 6 million tonnes per year in the mid 90’s.
Coffee Fact #18: Coffee is worth €30 billion per year to the producing countries.
Coffee Fact #19: Coffee is a living to more than 100 million people.
Coffee Fact #20: Coffee is consumed at the rate of 1400 million cups per day.
Coffee Fact #21:Coffee is the world’s second most popular drink after water.
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