May 20 - International Tea Day
Tea is the second most popular drink in the world after water and is one of the oldest. People used ceramic teapots 11,000 years ago in Asia and the Middle East.
🍵According to legend, tea was discovered by the Chinese emperor Shen Nong in 2737 BC, when the leaves of a wild tree fell into his bowl of boiling water, and he drank them, and it was tea!
💊Tea has been used as a medicine for centuries before it became a daily drink.
✖️Tea was not available to most Europeans until the end of the 16th century.
🔒Tea was so valuable in the 18th century that it was kept in a locked chest, which we now call a teapot.
🫖Tea bags were invented in the early 1900s.
😱There are about 3000 different varieties of tea.
🍃Now tea grows in 52 countries — the oldest tree in China is 3,200 years old.
☕️Tea has more caffeine than coffee.
🇬🇧The average person in Britain drinks about 1,000 cups of tea a year, while the annual consumption of tea is 3.6 billion cups worldwide.
☝️Tea will absorb the aromas that surround it. Therefore, tea should be stored in an airtight container at room temperature, as they can absorb moisture and spoil.