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Fact-based How It Started
The tea bag is said to have been born by mistake, when customers dunked silk sample pouches around 1908, but two women in Milwaukee had already filed a patent for one in 1901.
Fiction Useless Inventions
A cork coaster on tiny wheels that rolls a few centimetres aside each time you lift your cup, so the mug always comes down on the bare table, just as it would have anyway.
Fact-based Word Journeys
English and Spanish say tea and té, Russian says chai, and all three are the same Chinese word, split in two by whether it travelled west on a ship or on the back of a camel.
Fiction Made-Up Words
(noun) The slow one-way drift of mugs out of the kitchen into every other room of the house, noticed only when the cupboard is empty and the sink is not.
Fiction Made-Up Words
(n.) The serene confidence with which you carry a full takeaway cup whose lid you have not actually checked.
Fiction Made-Up Words
(n.) The third reheating of a drink you have no real intention of finishing.