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Apparently Pythagoras had a following (a cult) and one of the rules was not eating beans: https://classicalwisdom.com/cult-of-pythagoras/

Or maybe that meant not voting, since the Greeks used colored beans for voting.




Perhaps he didn't want them eating the beans and losing their vote.




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