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Mark Pendergrast, author of Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World, states that coffeehouses were nicknamed "penny universities" in Britain because for a penny one could learn a great deal by discussing ideas there.
“In Britain, coffeehouses were nicknamed "penny universities," Pendergrast says: "because for a penny you could go and learn a whole lot by sitting around in a coffeehouse and discussing everything."”
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world · NPR
By 1790, half of the world's coffee was being grown in the French colony of Saint-Domingue.
“By 1790, half of the world's coffee was being grown in the French colony of Saint-Domingue”
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