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.
SURINAME
Suriname, Republic of Suriname, Surinam, Dutch Guiana, Netherlands Guiana
(noun) a republic in northeastern South America on the Atlantic; achieved independence from the Netherlands in 1975
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SPONGE
(noun) a porous mass of interlacing fibers that forms the internal skeleton of various marine animals and usable to absorb water or any porous rubber or cellulose product similarly used
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