Coffee, Tea, or More Tea
On this day in 1773, in what is known as the Boston Tea Party, American colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians threw 342 chests of tea belonging to the British East India Company into Boston Harbor to protest a tax on tea, says Britannica. Nowadays, American’s consume around 85 billion servings of tea, or more than 3.9 billion gallons a year.
- Jet Cannon