In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
ALBUMINISE
Etymology
Verb
albuminise (third-person singular simple present albuminises, present participle albuminising, simple past and past participle albuminised)
Non-Oxford British alternative spelling of albuminize
Source: Wiktionary
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PARSEC
(noun) a unit of astronomical length based on the distance from Earth at which stellar parallax is 1 second of arc; equivalent to 3.262 light years
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