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    The New York Times‏Verified account @nytimes Apr 12

    Of all the plants that humanity has turned into crops, none is more puzzling than the sweet potatohttps://nyti.ms/2GSWk1j 

    4:47 PM - 12 Apr 2018
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      1. NYTscreams‏ @NYTscreams Apr 12
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        .@nytimespic.twitter.com/p9hHRvLPii

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      1. Alex °Ξ☻Ξ‏ @AntonioReyX360 Apr 12
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        They are trying to rewrite proof of how aboriginals traveled between places,just like Aboriginals & tainos conducted many trades between ocean water & Land Proof of the Arrow heads found inLand from different tribes across the ocean your" dinosaur digging "people wanna hide that

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      1. The Blue Hour‏ @TheAtomisedblue Apr 12
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        Looks like Trump emerging from his birth pod. 🇬🇧🇰🇵

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      1. paige meloni‏ @pmeloni Apr 12
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        I love stories like this.

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      1. Anonymous Buffalo‏ @AnonBuffalo Apr 13
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        Don’t potatoes have like 12 strands of DNA or something making them waaaay more genetically evolved than humans?

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      1. Hi Neil of Cidi Al-Masry Libya J1C2 & M253 1777 US‏ @0zyx Apr 12
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        metaphor confused to truth. Root Plants=Tooth Rot George Wash'ing'ton is toothless? +CivilWarPotato below fire mound of thin red headed & red skin soldiers. The secret is always that which grows above, the #ktkk plan to make you all albino chickens goes well. #BlondBoosterShots

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      1. edavid sanguisalas‏ @edavid57edavid Apr 12
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        Today I ate here in Lima sweet potatoe with my lunch. Is called camote not kumara. Is not an andean mountains product like normal kind potatoes, it is mostly harvest at peruvian coast.

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      1. Dottie Conway Lebron‏ @augustfirm Apr 12
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        Polynesians, early South Americans & New Zealanders are all of African descent. Early Africans were sea voyagers and this is why all or these so-called natives have African features. They brought their food w/ them at different periods. Namely sweet potatoes before Europeans.

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      1. Karl Kirkwood‏ @truthfromduluth Apr 12
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        "Humble" sweet potato? Of all potatoes, find me one more showy.

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      1. TheRevolutionStartsNOW‏ @JennyTuffree Apr 12
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        Yummm.... hot sweet potatoes with butter, brown sugar and little marshmallows 😋

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      1. Taoist Conservative‏ @TaoConservative Apr 12
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        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-Mn2hgmvvQ …

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      1. Banana Republican 2.0  🌎‏ @tombuchanan271 Apr 12
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        Aliens 👽

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      1. Mikaela Sarah‏ @mikaelasarah13 Apr 12
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        @rkovinsky

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      2. Brad caine‏ @actuallama Apr 12
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        Been saying it for years. Sweet potatoes are wicked crazy

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      3. haggis2‏ @haggis2 Apr 12
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        y Yuri :/ bb .

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