How caffeine became nature's secret weapon and humanity's favorite fix

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I’m drinking caffeine right now!

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That video title, “How Caffeine Accidentally Took Over the World,” made me laugh. Accidentally? :thinking: IIRC, Juan Valdez did a great job of selling some of us on the wholesome, natural benefits of coffee. Well played, Colombia:

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It’s not like I’m addicted or anything as I sip my nighty-night cup of coffee.

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Snow White Coffee GIF

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Well, from Wikipedia it seems like these commercials happened in the 1950s, so around 300 years after coffee took over Europe and who knows how many centuries after it was discovered in Ethiopia and spread through the Ottoman empire, so I don’t think Juan is entirely to blame for caffeine taking over the world.

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Plants? well, OK, I guess…

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