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When thinking about strange animals, we may automatically summon up an image of the famous blobfish with its sullen, slimy face, or the duck-billed platypus, a mammal that has somehow decided to lay ...

The history of who invented chocolate and how it's made is as interesting as the food is delicious. Mayans and Aztecs used cacao beans as a form of currency and even offered the beans to their gods.