10 Interesting Things about Coffee
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According to many historians, coffee was first discovered by a herd of goats. An Ethiopian herder discovered a bean making his goats crazy in 9th century which was later termed as coffee beans.
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Coffee beans are actually berries or sometimes called coffee cherries. They have coffee beans inside and only called 'beans' because of their resemblance to beans.
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Originally coffee was eaten. African tribes mixed coffee berries with fat which formed edible energy balls.
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Coffee is the second most sold commodity around the world. The first one is oil.
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Brazil is the world's biggest producer of coffee followed by Vietnam and Colombia.
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In 1675, Charles I - the King of England banned coffee houses, claiming they were places where people met to conspire against him.
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Some scientists believe that coffee beans may replace fossil fuel and work in motor engines in next centuries.
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George C Washington, - not the late president but - an English chemist invented instant coffee in Guatemala in 1906. The product was commercially launched in 1909.
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According to legend, Balzac drank more than fifty cups of coffee a day and died of caffeine poisoning.
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It used to be custom in Turkey that if a husband did not provide his wife with coffee, it was ground for divorce.
Vocabulary
herd of goats = kecske csorda
herder = pásztor
termed as = elnevezve (vminek)
resemblance [rɪzembləns] = hasonlóság
tribe =törzs
berry = bogyós termés
fat =zsír
edible =ehető
commodity = árucikk
to be banned = betiltva
to claim = állítani vmit
fossil fuel = energiaforrás (állati maradványból képződő)
to invent = feltalálni
to launch = piacra dobni (árut)
caffeine poisoning = koffein mérgezés
custom = szokás, hagyomány
provide = biztosítani vmit
ground for divorce = ok a válásra
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