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Interesting Coffee Trivia & Coffee Facts

Did you know that when you go shopping for perfume, you should take some coffee with you in your bag, but why?

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Well, if you have a good sniff in between smelling each perfume it will refresh your nose!  This is just one of the many coffee trivia facts that we have come across and we also found several interesting facts for gardeners.

After enjoying a cup of coffee, if you sprinkle spent coffee grounds around the base of your garden plants, it will stop snails and slugs from eating them!   A mixture of coffee grounds and sugar fed to a pot plant and watered regularly, will revive houseplants that have turned yellow in winter.

At the end of the 16th century records show there were at least 500 cafes in Istanbul alone. Immigrants from Asia opened the first European cafes around1650.  Some of the worlds most powerful businesses today, including Lloyds of London and the New York Stock Exchange, started life as coffee houses.  

Back in December 2001 Brazil produced a scented postage stamp to promote its coffee – it was said that the smell of coffee lasted between 3 and 5 years.

History shows that may famous people drank coffee; Vincent Van Gogh was a big partaker of the café society and famously said “I have tried to show the café as a place where one can go mad.”   Pope Clement VIII loved coffee and authorised its use and contributed towards it rise in popularity.

There are many interest facts about the coffee tree itself, which has a lifespan of about 50 to 70 years.  It can flower eight times in just one year and when in bloom the coffee tree is covered with 30,000 white flowers which begin to develop into fruit after 24 to 36 hours.

Coffee increases in volume during roasting by 18.60%, but the aromas in coffee (http://www.espressocoffeeclub.co.uk/espresso/) only develop at the 10th minute of roasting.

It is the second most widely used product in the world after oil and more than 100 million people make their living from coffee (http://www.espressocoffeeclub.co.uk/overview/), which we consume at the rate of 1400 million cups per day.

So if you fancy enjoying the world's second most popular drink after water, take a look at easy to use individual foil wrapped coffee capsules (http://www.espressocoffeeclub.co.uk/shop/) in a choice of flavours to suit you.  All capsules are hermetically sealed to ensure optimum freshness and a rich, smooth taste and work in all Nespresso machines including the leading brands of Magimix, Krups, De’Longhi and Capitani.

A Few Awesome and Funny Facts

• ‘Stewardesses’ is the longest word typed with only the left hand and ‘lollipop’ is the longest word typed with your right hand.
• TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
• The average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing.
• There are only four words in the English language which end in ‘dous’: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
• There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: ‘abstemious’ and ‘facetious.’ (Yes, admit it, you are going to say, a e i o u)
• ‘Dreamt’ is the only English word that ends in the letters ‘mt’.
• No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
• A ‘jiffy’ is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
• A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
• A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
• A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
• A snail can sleep for three years.
• An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
• In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
• Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite!
• Rubber band last longer when refrigerated.
• Babies are born without kneecaps. They don’t appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
• Winston Churchill was born in a ladies’ room during a dance.
• Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
• The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
• The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
• February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
• If the population of China walked past you, 8 abreast, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

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A Few Awesome and Funny Facts

• Stewardesses’ is the longest word typed with only the left hand and ‘lollipop’ is the longest word typed with your right hand.
• TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
• The average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing.
• There are only four words in the English language which end in ‘dous’: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
• There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: ‘abstemious’ and ‘facetious.’ (Yes, admit it, you are going to say, a e i o u)
• ‘Dreamt’ is the only English word that ends in the letters ‘mt’.
• No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
• A ‘jiffy’ is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
• A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
• A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
• A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
• A snail can sleep for three years.
• An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
• In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
• Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite!
• Rubber band last longer when refrigerated.
• Babies are born without kneecaps. They don’t appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
• Winston Churchill was born in a ladies’ room during a dance.
• Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
• The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
• The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
• February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
• If the population of China walked past you, 8 abreast, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

A Few Awesome and Funny Facts

A Few Awesome and Funny Facts

A Few Awesome and Funny Facts