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TIL France once feared potatoes as a disease-carrying crop, so Antoine-Augustin Parmentier staged a guarded potato field and let people “steal” from it to help make potatoes popular

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TIL France once feared potatoes as a disease-carrying crop, so Antoine-Augustin Parmentier staged a guarded potato field and let people “steal” from it to help make potatoes popular

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u/Blood_Fonatine — 8 days ago

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TIL the Great Pyramids were already 2,500 years old when the Ptolemaic Egyptians (300–30 BCE) were around. They actively studied, documented, and restored these ancient monuments, essentially practicing archaeology millennia before the field formally existed.

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u/Blood_Fonatine — 8 days ago

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TIL China National Tobacco Corporation contributes ~$220B/year in taxes + profits to the Chinese state, making it arguably the single most financially valuable government asset on Earth

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u/Blood_Fonatine — 8 days ago