5 Fun Facts About Coffee

by Sourabh SharmaNov 10, 2018

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Instant Coffee was invented by George Washington in 1910. Vintage ad alert!

New Yorkers drink almost 7 times more coffee than other cities in the US. Caffeinated big apple, perhaps?

The first webcam was created in Cambridge to check the status of a coffeepot. Ah, tech!

Coffee beans is a misleading name - they are not really beans at all but fruit pits, aka berries from the coffee tree bush.

Coffee comes from an Arabic word which means "wine of the bean". Cheers!