In 1511, leaders in Mecca believed coffee stimulated radical thinking and outlawed the drink. In 1524, the leaders overturned that order, and people could drink coffee again.
RHABDOID
Etymology
Adjective
rhabdoid (not comparable)
Shaped like a rod.
Noun
rhabdoid (plural rhabdoids)
A spindle-shaped body chemically related to the plastids, found in the cells of certain plants.
Source: Wiktionary
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PARSEC
(noun) a unit of astronomical length based on the distance from Earth at which stellar parallax is 1 second of arc; equivalent to 3.262 light years
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