Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
KRILL
krill
(noun) shrimp-like planktonic crustaceans; major source of food for e.g. baleen whales
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Proper noun
Krill (plural Krills)
A surname.
Statistics
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Krill is the 21330th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1228 individuals. Krill is most common among White (96.58%) individuals.
Etymology
Noun
krill (plural krill or krills)
any of several small marine crustacean species of plankton in the order Euphausiacea in the class Malacostraca.
Source: Wiktionary
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INTUITIVELY
(adverb) in an intuitive manner; “inventors seem to have chosen intuitively a combination of explosive and aggressive sounds as warning signals to be used on automobiles”
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