Shirley K's Coffee Shop

JAVA TRIVIA

Turkish bridegrooms were once required to make a promise during their wedding ceremonies to always provide their new wives with coffee. If they failed to do so, it was grounds for divorce! (Ouch!)

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Espresso has 1/3 of the caffeine of a regular cup of coffee

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It is a well-known fact to coffee drinkers everywhere that Honoré de Balzac, famous nineteenth-century French writer (remember Père Goriot?), drank up to 40 cups of coffee per day

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In the 17th century, for unknown reasons, an English king forbade his subjects to congregate anywhere coffee was sold

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 The US Navy used to serve alcoholic beverages on board ships. When Admiral Josephus "Joe" Daniels became Chief of Naval Operations, he outlawed alcohol on board ships, except for very special occasions. Coffee then became the drink of choice, hence the term "Cup of Joe". 

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