stackyFACTSAncient foragers in Central Asia found a wildly pungent bulb hidden in the dirt and decided it was exactly what their bland meals needed. They proceeded to domesticate a plant so aggressively aromatic that it permanently altered the breath of humanity for the rest of history.
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