10 Surprising Coffee Facts to Perk Up your Afternoon

1. Legend has it, coffee originated in Ethiopia around 800 B.C., when a shepherd named Kaldi noticed his flock dancing joyously after consuming the leaves and berries of a coffee bush. Kaldi allegedly decided to eat the berries to see if they would cause the same behavior in him and, of course, they did. The rest is history.
2. Espresso means “pressed out” in Italian.
3. You can eat coffee cherries as a seed.
4. You can overdose on coffee. (Don’t worry, you’d need to consume multiple cups in a very short period of time.)
5. One cup of black coffee has only 1 calorie.
6. The largest cup of coffee ever filled a 9 ft tall cup.
7. Coffee drinkers tend to live longer.
8. Starbucks opens an average of two stores per day.
9. The word “coffee” comes from the Arabic word for “wine”.
10. The grounds can beautify your skin.

How many of these did you already know?