💡 Trivia Penicillin was first called mold juice

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Did you know penicillin was an accidental discovery? In 1928, bacteriologist Alexander Fleming left a petri dish in his lab while he was on vacation—only to return and find that mold had grown in the dish, and the liquid it produced had killed the bacteria around it. This became the world’s first antibiotic, but before naming it penicillin, he called it “mold juice.”

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