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How did a cucumber and an orange grow on the orbital station?

Cosmonauts Lyakhov and Ryumin secretly carried a cucumber and an orange into orbit in the pockets of their spacesuits. And in the first reportage, this cucumber was shown, allegedly grown in the station greenhouse, although before that the plant had not even given an ovary. Then the astronauts confessed to the joke, showing the orange.

Authors: Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger

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