From National Confectioners Association

Carl Linnaeus a Swede known for plant taxonomy named the cocoa tree, Theobroma Cacao

A pound of chocolate takes around 400 cocoa beans

A cocoa tree can produce about 2,500 beans

It can take four to five years for a tree to produce beans

70% of cocoa comes from West Africa

To protect leaves and get sun, cocoa leaves can move 90 degrees from horizontal to vertical