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I learned this recently from another post here on HN:

"Brassica oleracea is a plant species that includes many common cultivars, such as cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, kale, Brussels sprouts, collard greens, Savoy cabbage, kohlrabi, and gai lan."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brassica_oleracea

If you look really closely at Broccoli, you can see the structure of the little buds are identical to Brussels sprouts just scaled way down.

I don’t know why I enjoy that fact so much but I sure do!

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