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Friday, November 25, 2011
F'd Ad Fridays: The Pope shills for cocaine wine
Via
Cracked
19th century
Pope Leo XIII
was such a big fan of
Mariani wine
(a patent medicine made of Bordeaux and coca leaves) that he awarded a Vatican gold medal to the wine, and also appeared on a poster endorsing it.
Talk about high holiness...
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