Most of what you've heard about Tulipmania isn't true
From Lorraine Boissoneault for The Smithsonian: "When tulips came to the Netherlands, all the world went mad. A sailor who mistook a rare tulip bulb for an onion and ate it with his herring sandwich was charged with a felony and thrown in prison. A bulb named Semper Augustus sold for more than the cost of a mansion in a fashionable Amsterdam neighborhoo…
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