Craziest Sentences I Read Today
[Before the famine,] two million acres of Ireland were given over to growing potatoes. Three million people ate nothing else. Nothing. Adult males consumed between twelve and fourteen pounds daily.
-- A.N. Wilson, The Victorians.
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