Where were potatoes first grown?
Potatoes were first domesticated in the Andes Mountains of South America, in what's now Peru and Bolivia, thousands of years ago.
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- Can spinach detect explosives?
“MIT engineers modified spinach to detect explosives in groundwater in 2016.”
Reference: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Did Popeye make spinach popular?
Popeye the Sailor is credited with boosting spinach consumption in the US.
Who invented pasteurization?
French scientist Louis Pasteur developed pasteurization in the 1860s, which kills harmful microbes by heating liquids like milk and wine.