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      7 months ago

      Purposefully licking things.

      Chemists of old were a bit less safety conscious than we are today. Tasting the chemicals you just made was just part of the job back then.

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      7 months ago

      “Why does my cigarette I left on the lab table taste sweet?” is absolutely the question an inattentive scientists asked himself before he discovered an artificial sweetener.

      EDIT: Michael Sveda’s discovery of cyclamate at the university of Illinois in 1937