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TIL that Louis Pasteur wasn’t the first to invent pasteurization. It was a Hungarian man named Preysz Moric who discovered it 3 years before Louis Pasteur, but nobody paid any attention him, because he published his research papers in Hungarian - a then undecipherable language.

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