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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“Candy corn was originally called "chicken feed."”
Reference: Smithsonian Magazine
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Where was corn first domesticated?
Corn (maize) was first domesticated about 9,000 years ago in southern Mexico from a wild grass called teosinte.
What was the Irish Potato Famine?
The Irish Potato Famine of 1845 to 1852 was caused by a disease that destroyed potato crops. About a million people died and about a million more left Ireland.