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This will be long because I want to mention how plumbing problems were the reason tea became popular in England.
Indoor plumbing is expensive so general solution was to have the toilet outside in an outhouse. Once it's filled farmers would collect it as a convenient bucket of manure.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plumbing
After fall of Rome, they continued with dumping their shit into rivers they drink from or outside their windows as people walk by.
The rivers part is interesting because that means average English had better chance of surviving and reproducing if they liked taste of boiling water with medicinal herbs in it.
Tea is popular in England slightly because of the generations of purging anyone that doesn't like it.