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International coffee day 1st October
INTERNATIONAL COFFEE DAY
International Coffee Day occurs on October 1 annually. Travelling from tropical Africa to the breakfast mugs of homes globally every day, coffee beans have been scattered across the world for more than 600 years, and their preparation for consuming is a great example of metamorphosis. Humanity has been preparing coffee in many forms: drinks, candies, medicine, and some ancient civilizations even used it as currency! No matter how you take it, coffee can energise you, warm you up, refresh you, keep you awake, and even bring you closer to your loved ones.
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DID YOU KNOW!
According to historical records, Coffee is originally from Ethiopia, and its discovery in Africa comes with an interesting story. Around the 700s AD, a herd of goats started acting strangely, almost as if they were dancing. Their owner, Kaldi, discovered that they were eating a sort of red bean and concluded that was the cause of their behavior. Kaldi decided to share his findings with a monk who required something that could help him to stay awake all night as he prayed; but another story claims that the monk refused and threw the beans into the fire and the pleasing aroma that came from it was just wonderful.