Margarine was invented in France in the mid-1800s, as the result of an acute butter shortage. U.S. dairy farmers at the time were not pleased when margarine began to be imported to America, and strict laws were passed regulating where… Read More
Meteorites often contain arsenic; when a Peruvian village was hit by one in 2007 many people became ill from vaporized arsenic compounds.
Source: The Arsenic Century, p 7