I heard on the radio that the UK (about 60 million people) gets through 197,000,000 cups of tea per day. This means we've drunk:
- 78,795,439 cups so far today
- Roughly 2,245,000,000 cups so far this month
- Roughly 26,074,000,000 cups this year
Assuming 250ml of tea in the average cup, this works out as:
- 570 litres per second
- 19,698,859 litres so far today
- 561 litres so far this month
- Roughly 6,518,000,000 litres so far this year
It's hard to visualise how much tea this really is, so here are some comparisons:
- If you had a Ford Focus 1.8i that ran on tea, you could drive it 124,851,063 miles on the tea we've drunk so far today (that's 5,013 times round the world).
- A Boeing 747-400 holds 216,840 litres of fuel. So far today, we've drunk 90 jumbo jet fuel tanks' worth of tea: enough to fly from London to Hong Kong and back 45 times.
You might need a nice cup of tea and a sit down after that.
