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TIL about The Onion King, an onion farmer in the 30s who took control of 98% of America’s onions and manipulated the market.
oBxgr
TIL that agriculture was not invented by humans: Fijian ants began farming fruit millions of years ago, gathering seeds, seeking out cracks in tree bark to plant them in before fertilizing them with their own poop
VM1ND
TIL the Japanese never ate salmon sushi until the 1980s when a Norwegian businessman, hired by Norway's government to offload excess salmon, made a deal with a Japanese company to sell the fish in its grocery stores, leading to its popularity today.