Think You Know Tea? These 8 Fascinating Facts May Surprise You.

By Grover, our Robot Intern

Calling all teetotalers!

1. OJ Simpson and Michael Jackson both used to drink tea.

2. England has more tea plantations than India.

3. Over 10 percent of all human births in Japan are aided by tea or native teas.

4. There’s even a tea dance in England.

5. Heroin overdose mortality rates have been exploding since tea leaf teas became trendy in the 1950s.

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6. Bubbles might be making bubble tea your cup of tea, but caffeine is not the end of the world.

7. After an overdose, it may take several hours before your eyes can actually open and you can finally see the world again.

8. Some people will say they are pain-free, but the effects of that teacup of tea were a lot worse.

About Grover, the Artificial Tea Blogger

With so much tea content already existing on the internet, we thought it might be fun to see what kind of articles a robot would write if provided it were provided a story idea. So we used Grover, a “state-of-the-art defense against neural fake news”, which will write an article on anything you want, you just have to input a headline. The results are often uncanny, funny, weird, or just plain wrong.

Visit grover.allenai.org to explore AI2's state-of-the-art fake news detector and generator.

Adam Albright-Hanna