Brits Consume Over 100 Million Cups of Tea Daily: The first interesting fact about the UK that comes to mind may be that the Brits love drinking tea. This fun fact about the UK directly confirms the idea that people from Britain drink a lot of tea. They consume between 100 and 160 million cups of tea daily, or around 36 billion annually. The UK differs from most other countries in the world in that a whopping 98% of tea drinkers add milk to their brew.