In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
BASIDIOMYCOTA
Basidiomycota, subdivision Basidiomycota, Basidiomycotina, subdivision Basidiomycotina
(noun) comprises fungi bearing the spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) and Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) and Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics and bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom Fungi
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