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TIL In 1983 Barry Marshall and Robin Warren had a research paper rejected showing that the bacterium H. pylori plays a major role in causing many peptic ulcers, Marshall later proved this in 1984 by drinking a broth of cultured H. pylori receiving a Nobel Prize in 2005 for the discovery
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So… he gave himself a peptic ulcer??
And it is the only bacterium that can cause cancer in humans