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TIL that all major categories of tea, e.g. green, white, black, come from the same plant and that varieties such as Assam or Ceylon differ only because of the region in which they're grown (from which they take their name).

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x6vQk TIL Americans are twice as likely to kill themselves than be killed by another person
JWxQ TIL that when Nike was shooting their commercial in Kenya using Samburu tribesmen, one of them was supposed to say “Just do it” in native Maa, but instead he said, “I don’t want these. Give me big shoes.” Nike responded with: “we thought nobody in America would know what he said.”
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