Tea bags were an accidental invention. When Thomas Sullivan distributed tea samples in small, silk bags in 1908, his customers dunked them in water – bag and all. Now, this seems like the normal thing to do – but this was during a time when you could only drink tea through big strainers. From Sullivan’s samples, the conventional tea bag was born.
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McDonald’s in the United Kingdom runs half their delivery fleet on used cooking oil. Nearly all McDonald’s restaurants in the UK recycle their used cooking oil, which is processed into biodiesel. The delivery trucks have been adjusted to make them able to use both biodiesel and conventional mineral diesel.