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• FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m pretty sure he didn’t discover it, what with people having lived there for tens of thousands of years.

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  • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I discovered a new restaurant last week. It’s been around for decades but it was new to me. I can’t remember the first time I tasted a tomato or potato, but to the Europeans it must have been amazing! And don’t forget chocolate!

    You are correct about the thriving and ancient civilizations in the “New World” of course. Getting olives and oranges and figs, even horses, doesn’t feel like enough compensation for what happened to them…

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  • loboaureo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The gravity was there from the beginning of time, but Newton discovered it.

    English is not my first language but as long as you specify for who, you can use discover, like "I discovered this movie last year, it’s my new favorite movie since then’ and the movie was published 40 years ago.

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• Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Do potato grow from seeds? I thought they just grew from other potato.

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  • Voyajer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They can be, they’re nightshades so they make little tomato-like berries which contain seeds. Usually people just replant potatoes instead because it’s easier and they grow faster.

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    • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Potatos make tomatos? Now you are just trying to confuse me.

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  • loboaureo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yes, you are right , he brings potatoes and tomatoes seeds, not potatoes seeds and tomatoes seeds

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