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To: SunkenCiv

Or perhaps by birds carrying seeds?


11 posted on 06/30/2025 12:27:02 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: 9YearLurker

Not a chance. This movement was due to 19th century trade, not very long ago.


13 posted on 06/30/2025 1:10:18 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Politics do not make strange bedfellows, and the enemy of your enemy may still be your enemy.)
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To: 9YearLurker

Unlikely-vanilla has been a trade item from the beginning-and although the beans/pods are fair-sized, the seeds inside are in a pulp-and tiny-they wouldn’t survive an ocean voyage in a bird’s digestive system...


14 posted on 06/30/2025 1:23:16 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"... )
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To: 9YearLurker

Listen. In order to maintain air-speed velocity, a swallow needs to beat its wings forty-three times every second, right?


15 posted on 06/30/2025 7:16:30 PM PDT by gnarledmaw (Hivemind liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives select servants.)
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