Ancient South American civilisations prized them so much for their medicinal and aphrodisiacal properties, they even used them as currency.

古代南美文明对于其药用价值相当推崇，甚至将之作为货币进行交换。

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These spices literarily dominated the way Europeans lived for centuries, how they traded and even how they used their imaginations.

几个世纪以来，这些香料可以说是主导了欧洲人的生活方式、贸易方式，甚至是他们发挥想象力的方式。

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They even used cacao seeds as a form of money to pay taxes or give as holy offerings to the gods.

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They are being used by teenagers and even babies whose hearts have been damaged by viruses.

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If significant numbers of autonomous vehicles are on the road, they could even be used collectively to control the flow of traffic, which might help minimize traffic jams, thereby decreasing commute times and avoiding all that stop-and-go traffic that wears down vehicles and it bad for the environment.

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They considered factors such as diet, patterns of light exposure, even the antibiotics they used.

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