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2. It wasn’t the Mayans who discovered chocolate.
Sure the Mayans could be called the first chocoholics, but it was really the Olmecs who passed the chocolate making information on to the Mayans in the first place. According to The Story of Chocolate, “The Olmecs, famous for carving colossal stone heads, were the first people known to process and eat cacao beans, which they called kakaw.”