The fact that I woke up at 7:30 today, and then didn’t start functioning/thinking until about 10, is basically due to the fact that I’ve given up coffee. Oh, the sweet, nectarous beverage that I once loved so much. Alas, it was mucking about with my innards, and I’ve since dropped it, well, like it was hot. That said, I figured a final trivia farewell was in honor before we part ways, so I pulled some stuff from John Green’s newly released floss books Cocktail Party Cheat Sheets and Scatterbrained.

• It’s estimated that about 1/3rd of the world’s population consumes the dark, caffeinated deliciousness that is coffee.

• As for said dark, caffeinated deliciousness, we can thank the farmers of the Islamic world, who first cultivated coffee plants in the early 15th century. (Perhaps this explains why Arabs were playing with algebra while Europeans were busy debating how many angels could fit on the head of a pin.)

• Voltaire supposedly drank 50 cups of coffee a day, and somehow still managed to live to be 84.

• Prussian emperor Frederick the Great suffered from severe hydrophobia. Not only did he refuse to take baths, but he insisted on making his coffee with champagne instead of water.

• Java fan Johann Sebastian Bach’s wrote the “Kaffee-Kantata” in 1732. It’s a comic story of a man who wants his daughter to give up drinking the stuff, but the woman refuses. Coffee, she sings, is “lovelier than a thousand kisses.” God. Don’t remind me!

Oh, and if you get a chance, be sure to check out this video on YouTube of a coffee artist playing with the half and half. It’s pretty amazing.