{National Coffee Day!!!}

I luff me some coffee.

Here are a few completely pointless interesting facts about coffee....

It all started with DANCING GOATS!

{haha no I'm not kidding!}
Ethopian shepards first noticed the effects of caffiene when they saw their goats appearing to become frisky and "dance" after eating coffee berries.

Originally... COFFEE WAS EATEN!
African tribes used to mix the berries with fat which formed edible ENERGY BALLS!

All coffee in the world is grown in the bean belt--
(The bean belt is the areas between the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn. Hawaii is the only
state in the US that grows Coffee.

Coffee grows on trees! They can grow up to 30 FEET tall!

{CaNt ReAcH mE! Hahaha.}

Espresso isn't actually a type of coffee. It's a way that coffee is prepared!
Shooting pressurized, hot water through finely ground coffee.

Coffee beans are actually inside of a bright red berry!
{I seriously did not know this!!!}

Coffee is the SECOND most traded commodity on Earth!
{OIL is FIRST....}

Coffee berries are picked, dried, and stripped down until all that's left is a green bean.

Once shipped the coffee beans are roasted around 500 degrees. After a few minutes, the bean pops! And doubles in size. Shortly after that, they will pop! again, meaning they're done.

Then the bean is ready to fulfill it's destiny. :)

How it works:

In your brain there's something called Adenosine and it only wants to hang out with certain receptors. When these two get together, you get drowsy.
When Caffeine shows up, it attaches to the receptros so that Adenosine cannot.
Your pituitary gland sees this and thinks there's an emergency, so it tells the adrenal glands to produce adrenaline.
In addition, caffeine bumps up your dopamine levels.

THE RESULT....?

A CAFFEINE HIGH!

Happy National Coffee Day!!!! :D