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20 facts/Numbers about tea.

1. Tea is the agriculture product of leaves, leaf buds, and internodes of the Camellia sinensis plant, prepared and cured by various methods.
2. Tea was created more than 5,000 years ago in China.
3. The first book about tea was written by Lu Yu in 800 A.D
4. Tea has potential health maintainence benefits in cardiovascular  disease and cancer prevention.
5. Tea contains half the amount of caffeine found in coffee
6. Tea firstly appeared in Europe thanks to protugaese Jesuit Father Jasper de Cruz in 1560
7. Iced Tea was first created at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase exposition in St. Lois
8. One pound of tea will brew apporox 200 cups (200 Teabags
9. The earliest Teacups had no handles.
10.  The number of recommended cups of tea to drink each day is 4.
11. 96% of all cups of tea drunk daily in the UK are brewed from Tea bags.
12. 98% of people take their tea with milk, but only 30% take sugar in tea.
13. By the middle of the 18TH century tea had replaced ale and gin as the drink of the masses and had become Britain's most popular beverage  
14.  Tea is the most widely consumed beverage in the world, after water.
15. There are at least six varieties of tea: White,yellow,green,oolong,black,pu-erh.
16. 80% of office workers now claim they find out more what's going on at work over a cup of tea than in any other way.
17.  Thomas Sullivan is credited with inventing the first tea bag in 1908.
18. Tetley  is the worlds second largest manufactoruere and distributor of tea.
19.  70% of britains drink more than 3 cups a day 
20. Although tea drinking is  an important tradition in Britain it is a fundamental part of Japanese culture