@[email protected] to Today I LearnedEnglish • 1 day agoTIL that the tumbleweeds commonly found in the American West are Russian thistle. They are an invasive species from Asia that adapted well to the dry, open landscapes of the western U.S.message-square46fedilinkarrow-up1427arrow-down16file-text
arrow-up1421arrow-down1message-squareTIL that the tumbleweeds commonly found in the American West are Russian thistle. They are an invasive species from Asia that adapted well to the dry, open landscapes of the western U.S.@[email protected] to Today I LearnedEnglish • 1 day agomessage-square46fedilinkfile-text
It’s kind of funny, I think, that a plant so closely associated with America is actually not native at all.
minus-square@MataVatniklinkEnglish1•19 hours agoBlows my minds that Indian and Asian food at one point wasn’t spicy, and it wasn’t until Europian trade from the America’s that changed the cuisine
Blows my minds that Indian and Asian food at one point wasn’t spicy, and it wasn’t until Europian trade from the America’s that changed the cuisine