How Humanity Got Hooked on Coffee: An Animated History

"Few of us grow up drinking coffee, but once we start drinking it, even fewer of us ever stop. According to legend, the earliest such case was a ninth-century Ethiopian goatherd named Kaldi, who noticed how much energy his ruminant charges seemed to draw from eating particular red berries. After chewing a few of them himself, he experienced the first caffeine buzz in human history. Despite almost certainly never having existed, Kaldi now lends his name to a variety of coffee shops around the world, everywhere from Addis Ababa to Seoul, where I live. His story also opens the animated TED-Ed video above, 'How Humanity Got Hooked on Coffee.' ..."

His story also opens the animated TED-Ed video above, “How Humanity Got Hooked on Coffee.”

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