tea, n.Trivia

after the Boston Tea Party, many Americans switched to drinking coffee during the Revolutionary War because drinking tea had become unpatriotic.

Cockroach tea is used as a medicinal remedy in some parts of the world.

The tea-bag was an accidental invention when a tea merchant distributed his tea samples in small, silken bags and his customers thought that was their use.

coffee is water intensive ---- It takes more than twice as much to produce coffee than it does tea

Green tea has 50% more vitamin C than black tea

Tea is the most widely consumed beverage in the world, after water.

During World War I, Allied soldiers would fire thousands of rounds at random over the German trenches to boil the coolant water in their machine guns so that they could make tea.

Until the 19th century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.

South Carolina is home to the first tea farm in the U.S

Caffeine evolved entirely independently in tea and coffee