TIL that after coffee come to Britain in the 1600s a ‘women’s petition’ was written against the drink complaining it made men impotent

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TIL that after coffee come to Britain in the 1600s a ‘women’s petition’ was written against the drink complaining it made men impotent

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Today I Learned (TIL)@lemmy.ca · 4 months ago

This 17th-Century "Women's Petition Against Coffee" Probably Wasn't About Women, or Coffee

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It probably wasn't written by angry, sex-deprived wives–although stranger things have happened

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