19 Prolific French writer and philosopher Voltaire was said to drink 50 cups of coffee per day
Francois Marie Arouet AKA Voltaire was certainly an eccentric and energetic figure, so he must have gotten his energy from somewhere, right? Still, this one seems a little fishy. We can only assume 50 cups was a smaller serving size then, because this probably would’ve made for digestive problems, no?
50 cups is actually half of the lethal dose, so Voltaire must have been living on the edge! It’s also likely that the coffee Voltaire drank was not as strong and concentrated as what we sip on today, so although 50 cups sounds like a lot, it may have been 50 cups of watered-down joe.
