A bad El Niño, with heavy rains and hotter than usual temperatures, led to a proliferation of diseases and pests. Nature Africa reported that this caused "dramatic falls in yields" in Côte d'Ivoire ...
Since he was a kid, Milton S. Hershey had a sweet tooth. A really, really sweeeeet tooth. So much so that in 1873, when he was only fifteen, he became an apprentice to a confectioner in Philadelphia ...