In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
TREKSCHUIT
Etymology
Noun
trekschuit (plural trekschuits)
A horse-drawn canal boat or riverboat, used to carry goods or passengers in the Netherlands.
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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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