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SYSK Choice: How to Think Like a Rocket Scientist & How Coffee Became Our Favorite Drink

Something You Should Know

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Coffee and Its Consequences

Coffee and its namesake ingredient, caffine, are used by as much as 90 % of the people on the planet ust to meet the demands of everyday life. First people who started using coffee as a beverage were sofe monks in yemen in the fifteenth century. Coffee spread widely through the ottoman empire and the in the sixteenth century, which is where the first europeans encountered it. It became popular very quickly in england and in london especially, coffee was tea before tea in british culture. But there was disagreement about its effects on the body and how it changed people who drank it.

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