June 12, 2012

Coffee Slushie

Honore de Balzac was unquestionably a caffeine addict. He consumed at least fifty cups of coffee a day in the form of pulverized roasted coffee with barely any water. Eventually, he took to eating ground coffee straight.

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Women from ancient Judea had slightly better status than their counterparts in Greece. A woman could divorce her husband if he had bad breath or if he practiced a trade that was too smelly, like tanning (turning animal hides into leather).

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