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EducateFirst Tutoring Services - Coffee? Today is Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge's 225th birthday. #Friedlieb #Ferdinand #Runge was a #chemist who discovered #caffeine after he isolated and purified the white crystalline substance in 1819. #
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