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.
PINGUIN
Noun
pinguin (plural pinguins)
Obsolete form of penguin.
A tropical American plant (Bromelia pinguin) that has plum-shaped edible fruit and yields fiber.
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FISSILE
(adjective) capable of being split or cleft or divided in the direction of the grain; “fissile crystals”; “fissile wood”
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