Revealing an interesting secret about coffee makes you not surprised

Due to the history of language, coffee today has an English name called 'coffee'. Initially Europeans call this drink Arab wine.

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Unknown things about the history of coffee

1. Coffee was discovered by Ethiopians

According to legend, since the 9th century, Ethiopians discovered coffee when seeing the goat phenomenon after this kind of fruit occurred strange phenomenon such as dancing, being excited.

2. Europeans originally called coffee 'Arab Wine'

Due to the history of language, coffee today has an English name called ' coffee '. Initially Europeans call this drink Arab wine. The original word ' coffee ' is Arabic ' qahhwat al-bun '. This phrase was then shortened to ' qahwah ', the Turks later transformed into ' kahveh '. Even the word changes to ' koffie ' in Dutch and ' caffe ' in Italian.

3. New Yorkers drink 7 times more coffee than other US cities

4. A 17th-century French doctor proposed Au Laits Cafe drink for patients, thereby inspiring the addition of milk to coffee.

5. French poet Voltaire is said to drink 50 cups of coffee a day

6. Hawaii is the only US state to grow its business coffee because of its suitable tropical climate

7. In ancient Arab culture, the only way a woman could legally divorce was that her husband did not provide enough coffee.

8. You can swim in coffee at a Japanese spa

The resort called Yunessun in Hakone, Japan has a special spa service that allows guests to bathe in tanks mixed with special liquids such as wine, chocolate, green tea and coffee. Fares for this spa service are about 2,800 yen.

9. A person named George Washington was the first to invent instant coffee

Although the first instant coffee was invented in 1901 by a chemist named Satori Kato, the first person to actually produce instant mass-produced instant coffee was George Washington. The first brand he named 'Red E Coffee', although considered not excellent, instant coffee was highly valued by American soldiers during World War I.

10. The Starbucks name is inspired by the novel Moby Dick

Initially the company intended to name it Peqoud, the captain of the Ahab of Herman Melville in the novel Moby Dick. However, the founders later disagreed and decided to name Starbucks, who warned Ahab not to chase after the white whale.

11. Coca-Cola has a canned coffee product called 'Georgia'

Coca-Cola currently has a canned coffee line named 'Georgia' that is now available in Japan, Singapore, Korea, India and Bahrain. This product is quite hard to find in the US and only one is available on Amazon.

12. Before coffee was introduced to the 18th century America, beer was the drink of choice for breakfast