Know Your Joe: 5 Things You Didn’t Know About Coffee: Quick Facts

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Paper bags filled with roasted coffee beans, ground coffee, and instant coffee granules arranged closely together.

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An adult Rocky Mountain goat and a kid stand on rocky outcrops with forested mountains in the background at Olympic National Park, Washington.

Rows of dense green coffee plants cover rolling hills on a coffee plantation on Basilan Island, Philippines, with distant mountains and water visible on the horizon.

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