In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
DIPHOSGENE
Noun
diphosgene (uncountable)
(organic compound) The highly chlorinated ester trichloromethyl chloroformate that is used in organic synthesis, and was once used as a military poison
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