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green tea a side to go with your tea For a while, I'm going to drinking this cheap green tea from Kroger's. It's not even my favorite type of tea, but on a student budget, 40 tea bags for $2.99 is a must-buy...right? Anyway, for a while now I've been meaning to dig into  https://www.data.gov/ . If you didn't already know, it's a government website that acts like a library for numerous data sets. These are all public, so it's a goldmine for those wanting to ask such titillating questions like: What is the average price of an avocado? Where are the boundaries of the national parks? this one's going to change real soon 😖 What are the most popular baby names in New York?  This got me thinking. In an age where so much information is accessible, a lot of misinformation tends to find its way into the spotlight. One example of many, a fiendishly dedicated Wikipedia editor fabricated a war between colonial Portugal and India back in 1640 . Mo