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A "Tomacco" - is a tomato containing nicotine, made by grafting tobacco and tomato plants.

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A "Tomacco" - is a tomato containing nicotine, made by grafting tobacco and tomato plants.
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The process of making tomacco was first revealed in a 1959 Scientific American article, which stated that nicotine could be found in the tomato plant after grafting. Due to the academic and industrial importance of this breakthrough process, this article was reprinted in a 1968 Scientific American compilation.[16] @Curionic

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There's a book that contains a million random numbers and little else. Published in 1955, it was an important work in the field of statistics and randomization.
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