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An Italian Farmer Found Some Unknown Seeds in His Attic and, With Nothing to Lose, Planted Them. The Result Was Almost Biblical (www.smithsonianmag.com)
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[–] tb_@lemmy.world 42 points 22 hours ago

A biblical quote described the ear he'd grown, and was the first place he found out more about it after the literature he'd consulted contained nothing.