Citizens across the region are still struggling to process the news that Harald Bønneland, 34, drank an entire cup of coffee on Tuesday morning before it went cold.

Seven minutes at the kitchen table

According to witnesses, Bønneland poured the cup at 07:12 and sat down. He did not get up to check the market, did not go to train and did not answer a single message from his military unit. He finished at 07:19. The coffee was, in his own words, "warm the whole way down."

A first since the server launched

Cultural historians at the Daily Bean believe this is the first recorded case since the server launched. Most citizens drink their coffee in a three-stage ritual that begins hot, turns lukewarm somewhere during the work shift and ends as a cold brown reminder on the desk after the evening battle.

"Nobody has that much free time unless they're hiding something."

The neighbours are suspicious

"I don't trust it," said one neighbour, who asked not to be named because she was late for a congress vote. "Nobody has that much free time unless they're hiding something."

Congress moves to make it official

Congress has already responded. A bill proposing a national Hot Coffee Day passed its first reading with 14 votes in favour and 3 against, while 22 members missed the vote because they had gone to reheat their cups.

What comes next

Bønneland remains modest about the achievement. He plans to try again tomorrow, but admits the second cup will be harder, since everyone now knows where he sits.

The Daily Bean will follow the story as it develops, or at least until our own coffee goes cold.