Coffee Factoids

The LD-50 (lethal dose) of caffeine is generally 10 grams. That’s about 100 cups of strong coffee in rapid succession. Not to worry. Well, er, most of us.

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French author Honoré de Balzac advised the eating, on an empty stomach, of spoons full of powdered coffee. Balzac wrote over 80 novels. He always wrote standing up.

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Coffee originated in the area of Ethiopia next to the Rift Valley, the area of human origin! Go figure! Co-evolution?

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“Coffee Bliss!” There’s a word for this exalted state. It’s in Arabic, the language of the first coffee drinkers. The word is “Marqaha.”