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Dogs were the first animals to be domesticated.

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"Corn was domesticated in Central America and has only been in this area for a few thousand years."

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She’s updated the play’s setting to 1950s England, a similar-in-spirit era in which well-bred women were kept domesticated.

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The same goes for Halle Berry, whose dumb ex, former baseball player David Justice, recently went on a podcast and claimed he left her because the actress wasn’t sufficiently domesticated for his tastes.

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Wild donkeys are descended from domesticated donkeys left behind by California gold miners more than a century ago.

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