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Til A museum in New York sheds light on the history of chocolate. Anthropologists find, chocolate was produced by pre-Olmec cultures living in Mesoamerica(now Mexico) as early as 1900 B.C. After the Spanish colonized Mexico in 1524, they acquired the recipe of chocolate and brought it to Europe

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