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Dec 24, 2019
TIL that tumbleweeds are not actually native to North America, but Russia. While they are a quintessential image of the American West, tumbleweeds arrived from Russia in 1870, and are known to be invasive, often "driving ranchers out of their homes through sheer abundance."
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