In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
GALVANI
Galvani, Luigi Galvani
(noun) Italian physiologist noted for his discovery that frogs’ muscles contracted in an electric field (which led to the galvanic cell) (1737-1798)
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