November 17th, 2009 | 
Author: Need a little pick me up? Grab a cup of coffee and muse over these interesting bits of trivia about the drink that the world consumes 400 billion cups of every year.
- Coffee is the second most traded commodity in the world, second only to oil in trade volume.
- On average, humans only absorb 300 mg of caffeine at a given time, no matter how much caffeine they take in.
- At Egyptian funerals, coffee is served strong and black, and at weddings, it is served sweetened and less strong.
- German King Frederick hired dogs to sniff out coffee amongst the troops, who he believed were not dependable under the influence of coffee. The coffee-finding unit was called the Kaffee Schnufflers and ultimately failed when King Frederick’s own affinity for coffee won out.
- Coffee beans are actually grown in berries. Each berry contains two beans.
- Voltaire, the French writer and philosopher is rumored to have consumed 50 cups of coffee a day.
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