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1999: the popularity of the chimp has not waned, though he - or she - now brews up with the celebrated pyramid tea bag. This is the breakthrough - claims Brooke Bond - that has given the chimps an edge over their deadly rivals, the Tetley Teafolk, creators of the first bag and purveyors of that brilliant concept for mugs, the round tea bag.
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