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301: Super Humble Spy Brothers

Dear Hank & John

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Didn't Tomatoes Originate in the Americas?

There were no tomatoes in aprourasia until the columbian exchange began. People thought they were poisonous, because other members of the night shade family are poisonous. It's also important to remember that a lot of cultural associations we have would not have been possible before the Columbian exchange. There are so many things that we think of as being natural, the front lawn, you know, that aren't, that are very, very recent.

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