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TIL Demand for quinoa in Western nations has pushed up prices to such an extent that poorer people in Peru and Bolivia, where quinoa is from, can no longer afford their staple crop

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vYo7 TIL that if you’re bilingual, you can be dyslexic in one language and not the other.