13 Things You Didn’t Know About Coffee
10. Role of caffeine
Caffeine can aggravate symptoms of gastro-esophageal reflux disease, arrhythmias, migraine and sleep disturbance in individuals suffering from such conditions. High doses of caffeine can cause anxiety, particularly in those pre-disposed to anxiety disorders. On the other hand, researchers have found that caffeine blocks the inhibitory effects of adenosine in the brain, thereby reducing depression.
11. Binding thinkers
Cafe Procope, which still exists, came up as the first cafe in Paris in 1689, and served as a meeting place for great thinkers such as Voltaire, Denis Diderot and Rousseau.
12. Coffee music!
Johann Sebastian Bach composed the Coffee Contata in honor of the beverage.
13. Coffee tidbits
An unknown author lamented that as soon as you begin to enjoy a cup of hot coffee, your boss will engage you in some work that will last till your coffee gets cold. Ronald Reagan famously claimed once that he never had coffee at lunch-time for it kept him awake during the afternoon!
