Sixteen little things and cold knowledge about coffee

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Can you remember the last day when you didn't drink coffee? I'm afraid it's difficult, because coffee has become a part of our life, but there are still a lot of knowledge about coffee, some of which are quite interesting.

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In the Turkish wedding ceremony, the bridegroom has to swear to the bride that he will always make coffee for the bride, and if he violates it, he can get divorced.

Beethoven is also a coffee lover. He even counts 60 coffee beans per cup.

The Boston Tea Party event replaced tea with coffee as a symbol of freedom in the United States.

Wash your face with wet coffee grounds, which can exfoliate. It is recommended that you wash your face every two weeks.

French playwright / novelist Honore de Balzac is rumored to need 50 cups of coffee a day to maintain his writing inspiration, which is a terrible number!

Back in 1674, there was a revolutionary uprising about coffee. In a book, the petition for Women against Coffee, it was mentioned that coffee made British men intoxicated and turned into useless corpses, hoping to stipulate that coffee should not be used until the age of 60.

In 1511, Mecca banned people from drinking coffee because they were afraid that people would gather their free thoughts and lead to revolution.

During World War II, American soldiers would order espresso and add water, because espresso was too strong for them and became the later American coffee.

In fact, the English word "cup of joe" comes from GI Joes, an American soldier who was addicted to coffee during World War II, so it is said to be cup of joe, which means cup of coffee.

Coffee has been banned in history, not once, not twice, but three times. The first was Mecca in 1511 mentioned earlier, then was Charles II to quell the rebellion in Europe, and the third was Frederick the Great who banned the purchase of coffee for economic reasons in 1677.

In 1906, a Belgian named George Washington invented instant coffee in Guatemala. Although he had the same name, he was not the president of the United States.

In ancient Arabia, women could divorce because their husbands didn't like coffee enough.

The word Coffee originated from the ancient Arab period "qahhwat al-bun", meaning wine in beans, and was later called "Kahve" by the Turks, and then the Dutch called it "Koffie" to become the present Coffee.

In the 17th century, there was a large-scale debate: was it Catholicism who could drink coffee? Later, under the Pope's coordination, everyone was able to drink coffee.

We often have coffee for breakfast now, but in the 17th century, many people served beer in the morning!

American President Roosevelt drinks a gallon of coffee every day!

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