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TIL Umetaro Suzuki extracted thiamine (which he named Aberic Acid) from rice bran in 1910 but his paper on the subject was poorly translated and ultimately ignored in the West. In 1912 Kazimierz Funk extracted the same substance and named it Vitamine.

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