So, you love drinking coffee, but what do you really know about your favorite beverage? Here, you´ll find a wide variety of fascinating facts on coffee, sure to brighten you day!

Until the late 1800´s, coffee beans weren´t roasted en masse, but in a frying pan over the fire. The invention of pre-roasted coffee is fairly new in that regard.

Did you know that coffee is not grown in any of the continental states? Only Hawaii and Puerto Rico have the adequate climate for coffee growing.

Just one acre of coffee trees will produce about 2,000 lbs of coffee beans, dried and cleaned. That´s from over 20,000 lbs of the actual coffee berries that are harvested from the coffee trees.

In Guatemala, workers are paid the equivalent of just one or two dollars a day to harvest coffee by hand, many workers take their entire families into the fields and even small children help their parents pick the coffee berries.

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Each coffee tree produces enough berries to yield about one pound of roasted coffee beans. It takes the coffee tree 5 years to reach the maturity necessary to produce decent coffee.

Coffee berries contain two beans each. The beans are actually the “pit” of the berry and the two flat sides are against each other to form a roundish seed.

“Have a cup of Joe” comes from the Second World War. Soldiers, commonly referred to as G.I. Joes, tended to drink a lot of coffee.

If you buy your coffee at drive throughs, you will probably spend nearly 50 hours a year waiting for your coffee! Might be time to start considering a home coffee pot.

Instant coffee was invented in Guatemala by a Belgium in 1906. His name? George Washington, and he later moved to the U.S.

After petroleum, coffee is the most traded product on the globe! Consider it fuel for our bodies.

I hope that reading the above information was both enjoyable and educational for you. Your learning process should be ongoing--the more you understand about any subject, the more you will be able to share with others.

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