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Your favorite salty popcorn is the result of extreme plant manipulation. Modern corn was heavily and painstakingly bred from teosinte, a wildly inedible grass…
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Before pumpkins became the undisputed kings of Halloween, Irish locals carved demonic, agonizing faces into raw root vegetables to ward off wandering spirits.…
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Because carrying a massive, heavy fruit through scorching sand was highly practical. They were originally harvested for their high liquid content rather than…
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Enterprising farmers in the early twentieth century actually mass-produced tiny, rose-colored plastic eyeglasses for chickens in a desperate attempt to stop…
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The ultimate botanical catfish. Before they became the ultimate couch-potato snack, potatoes were heavily ignored as actual food and instead grown exclusively…
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Leave it to a French historian to figure out global climate patterns by analyzing when people were picking grapes. Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie pioneered climate…
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