Most coffee is grown near the equator in the "coffee belt". Over 53 countries grow coffee worldwide, but all of them lie along the equator between the tropic of Cancer and Capricorn.

Most coffee beans are hand picked, that's over seven million tons per year. Each year some 7 million tons of green beans are produced world wide.

When a coffee plant is grown above 5000 ft. it produces what's called a "hard bean". Hard bean means the coffee was grown at an altitude above 5000 feet.

Coffee is the second most traded product in the world after petroleum. World wide coffee production tips the scales at about 6 million metric tonnes.

People who buy coffee on their way to work will spend as much as 45 hours a year waiting in line.

Of the various botanical species of coffee trees in the world, only two are extensively cultivated commercially; Arabica and Robusta.

It takes 42 coffee beans to make an espresso.

In Turkey, the oldest person is almost always served their coffee first.

In the ancient Arab world, coffee became such a staple part of family life that one of the causes allowed by law for marital separation was a husband's refusal to produce coffee for his wife.

To reduce wrinkles and improving their skin, the Japanese have been known to bathe in coffee grounds fermented with pineapple pulp.

Yes, coffee is one of a number of drinks that contain antioxidants. Antioxidants are also found in tea, cocoa and red wine. Coffee has actually been shown to contain four times as many antioxidants as tea.

If you want to bring someone around to your way of thinking you should make sure they've got a cup of coffee in their hand, according to research showing that caffeine makes us more open to persuasion.

"Expresso is not a word; it comes from the same root as "express" as in "The Express Train." The term is ESPRESSO. It comes from the Latinate root for "Press", or "Under Pressure". In many places if you order "expresso", you will be politely ignored.

In London in 1674 a group of women formed the Women's Petition Against Coffee (WPAC). They complained that their men were always at the coffee houses and not at home where they were needed.