15 Facts About Coffee You Need To Know

1. Black Ivory coffee is the most expensive kind of coffee on earth, and it's made from elephant dung. It costs 50 dollars per cup.

2. Coffee isn't actually that dehydrating. Caffeine was once thought to be a significant diuretic, but that's actually not true, unless it's consumed in large quantities more than 500 to 600mg a day. In fact, studies have shown that urine output isn't significantly changed when a person drinks a caffeinated beverage, rather than something non-caffeinated like water. So, as long as you enjoy your coffee in moderation, there's not much to worry about.

3. Coffee is good for your liver. People who drink four cups of coffee a day are 80 percent less likely to develop cirrhosis, a condition that develops from several diseases affecting the liver.

4. Caffeine improves your performance when working out by increasing your levels of adrenaline, and releases fatty acids from fat tissues, leading to a better physical performance by those who consume caffeine before working out.

5. Coffee is a red berry before its a bean. Those berries you see right there? Those are coffee berries. They grow on trees!

6. Caffeine is actually crystals. The buzz you feel after drinking coffee is actually from ingesting tiny 0.0016-inch crystals of caffeine. So small, yet so energizing!

7. Drinking coffee can help you burn fat. Studies have shown that drinking caffeine can increase your metabolism 3 to 11 percent. Its one of the few chemicals that can actually help with fat burning, so might as well drink up!

8. Coffee contains important nutrients you need to survive. A single cup of coffee contains 11 percent of the daily recommended amount of Riboflavin vitamin B2, 6 percent of Pantothenic Acid vitamin B5, 3 percent of Manganese and Potassium, and 2 percent of Niacin and Magnesium.

9. Coffee houses were banned in England because that's where all the cool kids were drinking. Okay, kind of. In 1675 King Charles II banned coffee shops because he thought that that's where people were meeting to conspire against him.

10. The first webcam in the world was made for coffee. In 1991, a group of Cambridge University scientists set a camera on their work buildings coffee pot, streaming the footage live on the web so that they would be able to see if the pot was empty or not, saving themselves the disappointment of a coffee-less trip. The picture above is the actually from that first camera.

11. It only takes ten minutes to start feeling the effects of caffeine after you take a sip of coffee, so drink up. Studies have shown that coffee drinkers are up to 65 percent less likely to get Alzheimers Disease, which is a leading cause of dementia.

12. All of the coffee grown on the planet is from an area called The Coffee Belt. The Coffee Belt contains all of the regions that have the conditions needed for coffee growing. Since the plants clearly require lots of sunshine and warmth, its pretty easy to say that this belt makes a good outline for the best tropical vacations, too!

13. You don't need coffee when you first wake up. Your body naturally produces a hormone called cortisol that helps you feel alert and awake. Cortisol is released according to your circadian rhythm, dictated by the time of the day. So, if you have a habit of drinking coffee when you first wake up, you may want to wait a bit longer so that your caffeine isn't wasted during a time when cortisol is at its highest.

14. Coffee can help you live a longer and healthier life. Coffee is the biggest source of antioxidants in an average western diet! As a result, coffee drinkers are at a lower risk of diseases such as Parkinsons, Type II Diabetes, and Heart Disease.

15. Like most great discoveries, coffee's magical powers were first realized through the majesty of crazy goats. According to legend, Ethiopian shepherds first realized the profound caffeinating effects of coffee when they noticed their goats started dancing after eating coffee berries.