Discover Magazine provided 20 things that most people (including me) didn't know about coffee.
20 Things You Didn't Know About Coffee
Speaking environmentally, this one bothered me a bit, considering I'm a coffee consumer (though not of the avid several-cups-a-day variety):
It takes approximately 4,700 ounces, or 37 gallons, of water to make just one cup of coffee when you account for inputs needed to grow and process the beans.
I'm just glad they don't grow coffee in California:
[California] Drought: Feds cut water allocations to farmers to ZERO
"In the San Joaquin Valley, the state's most productive agricultural region, many growers have already ceased planting winter crops such as broccoli, tomatoes and lettuce because of the drought. Spring plantings of watermelons and cantaloupes also could be cut short."
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