Pompeii had at least 80 thermopolia, counters where hot food and drinks were served from large jars sunk into masonry.

In 1991, University of Cambridge computer researchers pointed a camera at a corridor coffee pot so colleagues would not climb several flights of stairs only to find it empty.

On New Year's Eve 1853, natural-history artist Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins hosted scientists and Crystal Palace officials inside the mold of an Iguanodon sculpture.