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garfaagel@sh.itjust.works to Today I Learned (TIL)@lemmy.ca · 2 years ago

TIL that to promote potatoes, French agronomist Parmentier put guards around his potato fields, making them seem valuable. At night, they were left unguarded, so peasants could steal potatoes and grow

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TIL that to promote potatoes, French agronomist Parmentier put guards around his potato fields, making them seem valuable. At night, they were left unguarded, so peasants could steal potatoes and grow

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garfaagel@sh.itjust.works to Today I Learned (TIL)@lemmy.ca · 2 years ago
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    It gets even harder the more years you grow them, since at some point the potato beetles are going to find you and start setting up shop

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      What a tragic fucking end to the Martian that would have been

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