To keep your coffee knowledge at its best, Koffee Kult is here to provide you with the most interesting facts about coffee that you may not have known before! Surprise someone over a cup of joe with these facts about coffee. 

• Koffee Kult legend has it that an Ethiopian goat herder accidentally discovered coffee beans because he noticed his goats started acting crazy after eating the berries. How’s that for one of your first facts about coffee! 
• The word “coffee” comes from the Arabic phrase “wine of the bean” 
• Coffee comes from a bush 
• Coffee tree bushes can live up to 70 years 
• The coffee bean comes from the inside of a red berry 
• With that being said, coffee beans are not just beans, they are berry pits 
• Coffee beans are green before they are roasted 
• The darker the roast, the less caffeine present in the beans 
• The darker the roast, the more oil is on the shell 
• Without the smell, coffee would have only a sour, bitter taste 
• Coffee does not taste exactly the way it smells because your saliva takes away half of the taste 
• The name “cappuccino” comes from the resemblance of the way the drink looks to the clothing of Capuchin monks 
• Coffee has a lethal dose: 70 cups can kill the person of average build 
• Brazil is the largest producer of coffee 
• Coffee is the world’s second most valuable traded commodity, only behind oil 
• Coffee is most effective when it is consumed between 9:30 and 11:30 a.m. 

• New Yorkers drink almost seven times more coffee than other cities in the United States 
• Hawaii is the only American state that grows coffee for commercial trade 
• Sprinkling coffee grounds on the floor around plants can stop snails from eating the plants 
• 70 percent of the world consumes Arabica coffee, the Koffee Kult staple, which is mild and aromatic