Re: Friday Factoid -

Also, gourds were NOT the first domesticated plants AND the Maori WEREN'T the ones who domesticated them. Plants of the genus cucerbit are native to the Caribbean - that's the genus that all squash are derived from - and it was the Native American Indians who first domesticated them. The Maori didn't even get TO New Zealand 'till the 1200s AD - and in one of history's funnier jests, it was the Hawaiians who colonized New Zealand - via Easter Island, Henderson Island, and Pitcairn Island in roughly that order.

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