An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
TELEGONY
Etymology
Noun
telegony (uncountable)
The belief that, in the case of siblings from the same mother but different fathers, the second sibling could inherit characteristics from the father of the first.
Source: Wiktionary
Te*leg"o*ny, n. [Gr. th e far + root of Gr. to be born.] (Biol.)
Definition: The supposed influence of a father upon offspring subsequent to his own, begotten of the same mother by another father. -- Te*leg"o*nous (#), a.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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