The earliest recorded case of a man giving up smoking was on April 5, 1679, when Johan Katsu, Sheriff of Turku, Finland, wrote in his diary "I quit smoking tobacco." He died one month later.

The rarest coffee in the world is Kopi Luwak, which is found in Indonesia. It cost about $300 a pound.

The word "laser" stands for "Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission by radiation."

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