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.
SANDFLY
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Noun
sandfly (plural sandflies)
Any of various small flies of the genera Lutzomyia and Phlebotomus whose females suck the blood of vertebrates and thus spread leishmaniasis.
(New Zealand) A small fly of the genus Austrosimulium.
(US) A biting midge (family Ceratopogonidae).
Source: Wiktionary
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