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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- Were onions ever used as money?
“In the Middle Ages, onions were sometimes used to pay rent.”
Reference: National Onion Association
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