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17 Things You Didn’t Know About Your Morning Coffee Infographic

17 Things You Didn’t Know About Your Morning Coffee

  1. 1.7 billion cups of coffee are consumed every day worldwide compared to 1.6 billion cans of Coca Cola.
  2. People of the United States are responsible for 35% of this consumption
  3. That’s about 300 million people drinking about 400 million cups of coffee every day.
  4. The espresso machine used to deliver your morning coffee was invented in 1901 in Italy by Luigi Bezzera, who based his machine on a basic French design from 1822. Luigi saw a need for a machine that produced coffee quickly, so that his staff didn’t take such long coffee breaks.
  5. The first advertisement for coffee was in a U.S. newspaper in 1790.
  6. Johann Sebastian Bach wrote a satirical cantata about coffee addiction in 1732.
  7. Coffee houses were extremely popular in Europe in the 1700s, including Leipzig, where J.S. Bach lived.
  8. These days, Italy has more than 200,000 espresso bars.
  9. 65% of coffee drinks are consumed at breakfast.
  10. Between 200 and 300 cups are served at the average espresso drive-thru per day
  11. The Specialty Coffee Association of America estimates that the specialty coffee industry brought in $12.2 billion in sales in 2006.
  12. More than 75% of this is spent in cafes and coffee shops.
  13. Coffee is one of the highest traded commodities in the world, second only to oil.
  14. Addiction to coffee was considered a social problem in the 1700s.
  15. Men say that coffee helps them get the job done, while women say it’s a good way to relax.
  16. In 2011, the average price of an espresso based drink was $2.45
  17. If you bought an espresso machine for $200 and had 1 coffee every day you would break even in 81.63 days.

The World’s Gold

This infographic addresses how large the worlds gold supply is and who owns all this precious metal

The first part of the graphic is a visual representation of the largest gold owners gold supplies. It shows how high each country’s gold reserves would be if you stacked standard 1-ounce bars on top of each other.

The next section of the infographic shows basically the same as the first part, except in numbers. As you can see, the United States are the largest owners of gold, followed by Germany and the International Monetary Fund. Other countries with large gold supplies are Italy, France, China, Switzerland, Russia, Japan and the Netherlands.

The third section shows a visual representation of how dense gold is by comparing how large volume one metric ton of gold weighs compared to U.S. dollars in $1 bills, barrels of oil and average Americans. One metric ton of gold is currently valued at over $51,500,000

The fourth part of the infographic shows consumer demand in gold by country. Surprisingly, the list is very different compared to the first section. First is India, followed by China, Germany, Turkey, The United States, Switzerland, Vietnam, Thailand, Russia and Saudi Arabia.

The fifth and last individual part of the infographic shows global annual gold production. First is unsurprisingly China followed by the U.S., Australia, Russia, South Africa, Peru, Indonesia, Canada, Ghana and Uzbekistan.