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20 Things You Didn’t Know About Coffee

Ethiopia was the First Place to Grow Coffee Beans  

Ethiopia was the First Place to Grow Coffee Beans
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Despite our current association of coffee with South America, the first coffee beans were actually grown in Ethiopia. There are a number of legends as to how the energizing effects of the bean was discovered. Most likely, though, it was investigated further after a farmer saw how  his goats behaved when they ate the plants.


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