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What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
(November 17, 2021 at 4:50 pm)Oldandeasilyconfused Wrote:
(November 17, 2021 at 4:29 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: You could live on nothing but milk and potatoes and cover literally all your daily required nutrients but Vitamin E and Molybdenium.

However, you’d need to eat 8 pounds of potatoes and drink 2 gallons of milk per day. And I’m not sure if that’s even possible.

https://www.straightdope.com/21343924/co...s-and-milk

 During the great Irish famine in the nineteenth century more than a million died.  Another 1.5 million left, mostly to America. Before the famine, the population of Ireland was about 8 million.  Today, Southern Ireland has  4.94 million. Combined with Northern Ireland, the the total is 6.8 million.

I read that the reason for the famine cause by the potato  blight was that for a couple of million Irish, their diet was mainly potatoes and oats.

The ‘great Irish famine’ is a myth. You can’t have famine in a country full of food. It was a deliberate attempt at genocide.

And please don’t say ‘Southern Ireland’. There’s no such country - it’s either ‘The Republic of Ireland’ or simply ‘Ireland’.

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday? - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - November 17, 2021 at 4:56 pm
I seriously DID NOT know this. - by Brian37 - August 24, 2021 at 12:27 pm
RE: I seriously DID NOT know this. - by no one - August 24, 2021 at 12:36 pm
RE: I seriously DID NOT know this. - by Ravenshire - August 24, 2021 at 4:53 pm

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