TIL at one time, people thought that tomatoes were poisonous.
TIL at one time, people thought that tomatoes were poisonous.
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How the Misrepresentation of Tomatoes as Stinking ‘Poison Apples’ That Provoked Vomiting Made People Afraid of Them for More Than 200 Years
The long and fraught history of the plant shows that it got an unfair reputation from the beginning
