TIL Italy, France, and Brazil are not even in the top ten highest consumers of coffee. The Nordic countries dominate coffee consumption and are all within the top ten countries worldwide. Further, Finland (the highest consumer in the world) more than doubles the annual consumption of Italy.
TIL that, ideally, you need to use your fake Christmas tree for 20 years to make it outweigh the minimal environmental damage done by chopping down a real tree every year. Production and disposal of plastic and steel trees is worse for the environment, and real trees are typically recycled.
TIL that Napoleon Bonaparte's nephew, Charles Louis Napoléon Bonaparte was elected to be the first president of France in 1841. He staged a coup d'etat at the end of his term in 1851 and ruled as emperor Napoleon III till his death since the constitution didn't let him seek reelection.
TIL Benjamin Franklin was a popular author at 16 under the name Silence Dogood. The articles are written in the persona of a middle-aged woman and Franklin received several marriage proposals in the process. Franklin would slide these articles under the door of his brother's newspaper print shop.
TIL A private German company called OTRAG was the first to attempt to commercialize space launches. They attempted launches from Zaire now the DRC in Africa.
TIL The Florida Department of Citrus, through a partnership with Marvel, created Captain Citrus, as an effort to spread the nutritional message of orange juice in Florida classrooms.
TIL That the Scaly Foot Gastropod lives in hydrothermal vents up to 750°F, doesn't eat food, and is the only living creature that encorporates iron into its skeleton.