Voltaire drank 50 cups of coffee a day and lived till a venerable age of 83 years. He died of prostate cancer, suffering of severe pain during the last few years, which he tried to soothe by taking opium.
Ludwig van Beethoven was an ardent admirer of coffee and always brewed it of 60 or 64 beans.
Until the XIV century, coffee grew in Ethiopia as a wild plant. Later coffee tree was brought to the Arabian...
read moreThere are about 70 sorts of coffee trees existing nowadays, from dwarf shrubs to 10-meter giants.
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