Did you know…? That LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) was derived from the ergot fungi. Wikipedia has a full article about the details of this.  Very interesting check it out here:  Wikipedia link. “LSD was first synthesized on November 16, 1938 by Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann […]

Did you know that chloramphenicol, discovered in 1947, was the first antibiotic to be synthesized? I found this in an article that Wikipedia has. Check it out.