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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- Who named peppers?
“Christopher Columbus named chili plants "peppers."”
Reference: Encyclopaedia Britannica
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Who invented the Scoville scale?
Pharmacist Wilbur Scoville created the Scoville scale in 1912 to measure how spicy peppers are.
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