Here is some Coffee Trivia for you:

The history of coffee starts with its humble botanical origins on the plateaus of central Ethiopia several thousand feet above sea level.

Coffee drinking legends stretch back to dates around 800 with Arabian stories of a mysterious black beverage with the powers of stimulation, which was also used as a medicine. Certainly by 1000 ad coffee drinking was prevalent throughout the Middle East. Coffee drinking in the West only really took off at the end of the 17th century.

Stories tell of a shepherd who discovered that when his flock of sheep ate a mysterious red berry they became restless, and it had the same effect on him when he tried it.

It is widely believed that coffee reached the Arabian peninsula around 600ad. It was highly prized by the Arabs and they prevented it from being exported to other parts of the world. The first coffee beans to reach India, were believed to have been smuggled out of Arabia by a Muslim Pilgrim called Baba Budan. He took seeds from Arabia back to India and planted them in the hills near Chikmagalgur in southern India. These trees even today produce about a third of India's Coffee.