Coffee Facts

If you yelled continuously for 8 years, 7 months, and 6 days, you would theoretically produce enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

In 15th-century Ottoman Turkey, a woman could legally divorce her husband if he failed to provide her with enough coffee.

Caffeine can enhance memory consolidation, helping your brain better retain information learned shortly before consuming it.

You can overdose on caffeine.

People who drink coffee are less likely to commit suicide than people who don't.

Non-dairy creamer is flammable.

There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee. Of these, only 26 have been tested, and half caused cancer in rats.

Chocolate contains significantly less caffeine than coffee, tea, and cola. A 1-ounce (28g) bar of milk chocolate contains about 6mg of caffeine, while an 8-ounce cup of brewed coffee contains 80-100mg, tea has 25-50mg, and a 12-ounce Coca-Cola has 34mg.

Decaffeinated coffee is not 100% caffeine free. When coffee is being decaffeinated, 2% of the caffeine still remains in it.

Coffee beans aren't beans - they're fruit pits.

There are coffee houses in Russia where food and drink are free, but you pay for time.

All coffee is grown within the Coffee Belt, a band extending roughly 2,500 miles north and south of the equator.

Dandelion root can be roasted and ground as a coffee substitute.

Acorns were used as a coffee substitute during the American Civil War.

A coffee tree yields about one pound of coffee in a year.

The handbook issued to US soldiers in Britain during WW2 included the line "The British don't know how to make a good cup of coffee. You don't know how to make a good cup of tea. It's an even swap."

The first webcam was used in 1991 by Cambridge researchers for checking the coffee pot without leaving their desks.

Dunkin' Donuts in South Korea started spraying coffee aroma into public buses every time their jingle played. Coffee sales increased 29%.

A Starbucks coffee cup appears in almost every scene of the movie Fight Club.

Coffee comes from an edible fruit. The coffee cherry is sweet and tastes like watermelon, rosewater, and hibiscus all at once.

The two oldest cats on record lived to 38 and 34 years old, both were owned by the same owner and lived off a diet of bacon, eggs, broccoli and coffee.

John Swartzwelder, a writer for The Simpsons, used to write episodes while sitting in a booth at a coffee shop, drinking copious amounts of coffee and smoking endless cigarettes. When California passed an anti-smoking law in 1998, he bought the booth and installed it in his house so he could keep writing the same way.