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TIL nearly the entire world uses one of 2 forms to say tea, basically derived from the Chinese words 'te' (ie Spanish & English) and 'cha' (ie Hindi & Russian), because of the way tea spread around the world from China. 'Cha' used in places where tea came by land and 'te' where imported over water

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