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Upbeat Times in San Diego, CA with First Fun Facts Patrick & Suzie Oster at a Giants v.s. Padres Game 2016... Go Giants for 2017!


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Irish coffee was supposedly created in the early 1950s by Joe Sheridan, a bartender at the Shannon Airport. It was publicized by travel writer Stanton Delaplane after he discovered it during his travels.


In the Ethiopian highlands, a goatherd named Kaldi noticed his goats did not want to sleep at night after eating berries from a certain tree. He reported this to the abbot of a local monastery, who then made a drink with the berries and discovered that it kept him awake and alert for the long hours of evening prayers. From there the knowledge slowly spread.


In the mid 17th century there were more than 300 coffee houses in London.


It has been estimated that about 1/3 of the tap water used for drinking in North America is used to brew coffee.


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Vacuum Packed Coffee was first introduced in 1900.


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