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Feb132015

A Short Guide to Tea breaks

The tea break was invented by Maximilian Cunnly-Smythe, a British secret agent, in July 1842 during the siege of Nannopinhinghi as a ruse to distract defenders during the daily 3pm surprise attack demanded by army regulations.

At 'peak tea-break' in 1909 the rotation of the Earth was shown to slow by up to three seconds per day during the British Empire Standard Teatime at 3pm Greenwich Mean Time. BEST was later abandoned after the New Zealand Polite Rebellion of 1911.

 

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