According to a resolution passed by the UN General Assembly, the day is marked every year on May 21. The day's goal is to increase public knowledge of the beverage's health advantages. 

• According to the United Nations, there is proof that tea was drunk in China more than 5,000 years ago.  
• After being discovered in China in 2737 BC, tea spread throughout Asia where it first appeared in religious rites as a symbol before becoming a beverage and a remedy.
• In order to compete with China's monopoly on the production of tea, the British first brought the crop to India for commercial purposes in 1824. Since then, it has been extensively grown throughout Darjeeling, Nilgiri, and Assam, with 900,000 tonnes of tea reportedly produced in the nation.
• The scientific name of the tea is Camellia sinensis.