TRIVIA TODAY - Monday, March 16, 2015

Greetings Infomaniacs,

Raise your hand if you like coffee! I'm a big fan, especially now that we have a Keurig at work. It's easy to get out of control with that thing, but I limit myself to one (well, sometimes two) a day. In honor of this delicious caffeinated beverage, I have an issue full of coffee facts for you!

Enjoy!
Melissa

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WHO SAID IT?
QUOTE: "Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank."

HINT: (1854-1905), was a French writer and humorist born in Honfleur, Calvados.


RANDOM TIDBITS
The word coffee comes from Kaffa, a region in Ethiopia where coffee beans may have been discovered.

As early as the ninth century, people in the Ethiopian highlands were making a stout drink from ground coffee beans boiled in water.

Scandinavia boasts the highest per-capita coffee consumption in the world. On average, people in Finland drink more than four cups of coffee a day.

Coffee is the most popular beverage in the world, with more than 400 billion cups consumed each year. More than 450 million cups of coffee are consumed in the United States every day.

Coffee contains caffeine, the stimulant that gives you that "lift." Caffeine is the most popular drug in the world, and 90 percent of people in the United States consume it in some form every day.

Despite what you may believe, dark roast coffee has less caffeine than coffee that's been lightly roasted.


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WHO SAID IT?
QUOTE: "Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank."

ANSWER: Alphonse Allais.

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