• Coffee loses 70% of its flavor in two minutes.
• Brazil is the largest producer of coffee in the world.
• New Yorkers drink seven times as much coffee as the rest of the U.S.
• But the U.S. only clocks in at number 26 on the list of top coffee consumption per capita.
• Finland takes the crown, with each Finn drinking 12 kg, or 26.5 lbs, per year.
• Dark roast contains less caffeine than light roast.
• University of Cambridge researchers invented the first webcam to monitor their lab’s coffee situation. Every 20 seconds, a camera snapped images to save them from a wasted trip to an empty pot.
• Decaffeinated coffee is not caffeine free. While certainly a step down from the average 95-165 milligrams in regular coffee, decaf still contains 2-5 milligrams of the stimulant.
• Once caffeine is removed from coffee, the extracted product is often sold to companies in the soda and energy drink industry.
