King Gustav III of Sweden’s coffee vs tea experiment was crazy! It was a purported study in which twin convicts were ordered to study the health effects of coffee. They did this by having one twin drink 3 pots of coffee and the other drink 3 pots of tea everyday. They had to do this for the rest of their lives in the later half of the 18th century. The supposed experiment failed to prove that coffee was a dangerous beverage. As usual, history is crazy y’all! This post about it is quote amusing:

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