• SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    83
    ·
    7 months ago

    Lemon helping with scurvy was reported and recorded but then forgotten. I think losing knowledge is more likely than unreported knowledge, especially regarding lifes great mysteries.

    • the_stat_man@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      16
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      7 months ago

      Especially so for anything discovered more than a couple hundred years ago when most people couldn’t write, let alone have their findings instantly available to the world via the internet

    • Smoogs@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      3
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      7 months ago

      I believe that was the origin of ‘limey’ becoming a nickname for when English were in submarines for large periods of time.