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What Napoleon had to do with the Invention of Margarine (2015x14)

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→Subscribe for new videos every day! http://bit.ly/todayifoundoutsubscribe →Why Do Superheroes Wear Their Underwear on the Outside?: http://bit.ly/1Ow7J0K Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from Today I Found Out: Concrete vs Cement http://bit.ly/1gPX1XK Black Friday http://bit.ly/1Ikvrfm Why Superheroes Wear Their Underwear On The Outside http://bit.ly/1HLvFLb In this video: Odds are you probably have a stick or a tub of it sitting in your fridge right now, but do you have any idea how margarine became a staple in most kitchens? It turns out, margarine has a long and controversial international history, and can even boast the involvement of Emperor Napoleon III in its invention. Margarine derives its name from a discovery in a chemist’s lab in France in 1813. Scientist Michel Eugène Chevreul uncovered a new fatty acid that he decided to call “acide margarique.” His discovery consisted of shiny, pearl-like deposits, so margarites seemed an apt name, as it is the Greek word for “pearly.” Want the text version? http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/12/napoleon-invention-margarine/ Resources/Further Reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margarine http://boingboing.net/2012/06/26/the-history-of-margarine.htmlhttp://boingboing.net/2012/06/26/the-history-of-margarine.html http://www.webexhibits.org/butter/margarine-history.html http://margarine.unilever.com/Whatismargarine/Historyofmargarine.aspx http://mentalfloss.com/article/25638/surprisingly-interesting-history-margarine http://therumpus.net/2013/08/margarine-a-public-and-personal-history/ http://www.heartfoundation.org.nz/healthy-living/healthy-eating/food-for-a-healthy-heart/replace-butter/myth-busting-butter-versus-margarine http://margarine.unilever.com/Whatismargarine/Historyofmargarine.aspx http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2011/09/22/the-politics-of-yellow/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wi