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Why Chinese monks drank bitter tea

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Spiritual enlightenment is incredibly difficult to achieve when you keep violently nodding off. Monks began brewing heavily caffeinated, intensely bitter leaves strictly as an artificial stimulant to force their eyes open during painfully long meditation sessions.

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