Decaf coffee still has some caffeine in it.

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Caffeine is actually a natural insecticide that damages the nervous systems of insects.

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Drinking one cup of coffee per day has been shown to delay the onset of Parkinson's disease in people that have the disease. 

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Finland is the largest consumer of coffee in the world.

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Coffee is a mood elevator that increases happiness. 

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The origin of coffee is said to be from a goat farmer that noticed that his goats would dance after eating a berry. 

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A coffee bean is actually a seed of a fruit that resembles a cherry. 

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When roasting coffee, there are audible cracks that occur to tell the roaster what stage of the roast they are going through at the time. (Second crack is a dark roast)

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Espresso (not xpresso) is not a type of bean, it is a form of coffee extraction. It is Italian for pressed-out.

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Caffeine doesn't actually give you energy. It has the ability to bind to the same receptor site on the brain as adenosine. As the day goes on, adenosine binds to these receptors, and you start to get sleepy as more and more bind. Since caffeine can bind to these receptors, it prevents adenosine from binding and makes it harder to fall asleep. 

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