In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
TOTIPOTENCY
totipotency, totipotence
(noun) the ability of a cell to give rise to unlike cells and so to develop a new organism or part; “animal cells lose their totipotency at an early stage in embryonic development”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
totipotency (uncountable)
(biology) The ability of a cell to produce differentiated cells upon division
Source: Wiktionary
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GUILLOTINE
(verb) kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine; “The French guillotined many Vietnamese while they occupied the country”
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