OCD composer Ludwig van Beethoven brewed every cup of coffee with exactly sixty beans. The French novelist Honore de Balzac drank as many as fifty cups of thick black coffee per day. President Theodore Roosevelt drank approximately a gallon of… Read More
In 1675, King Charles II of England banned coffee houses on the grounds (cough) that they had become "the great resort of Idle and disaffected persons." The ban was ignored.