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"More coffee, more sugar!"
-- Jacob, Humboldt's parrot
Humboldt's Accomplishments
Traveled over 40,000 miles through 40 countries over 4 continents
Wrote 36 books and more than 25,000 letters
Found the magnetic equator, mapped climate zones, and believed all nature was interconnected
Slept only 4 hours every night and called coffee "concentrated sunbeams" |