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The conquistadors sent potatoes to Europe because during the time a big famine in Ireland was happening, and the potatoes really solved there problem for a while. Later on a bad disease spreaded in the potatoes and cause them to turn into an inedible slime. The potatoes the caused a lot of deaths!

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