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There is way too much serendipity (malmesbury.substack.com)
6 points by arash_milani 881 days ago
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"It is therefore a fact of the world that virtually all the popular synthetic sweeteners were discovered accidentally by chemists randomly eating their research topic."

Yikes.

Duplicate over here on different domain:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39092278