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Re:Eating Too Much Rice Almost Sank the Japanese Navy in 1882 by gohrt on Thursday April 16, 2015 @03:50PM (#9390365)
very similar story as the discovery and loss of the Scurvy prevention/cure: http://idlewords.com/2010/03/scott_and_scurvy.htm
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Re:Eating Too Much Rice Almost Sank the Japanese Navy in 1882 by Someone1234 on Thursday April 16, 2015 @05:31PM (#9390863)
All the way down this article I was expecting it to be about Scurvy as it hits many of the same issues. Only difference seems to be that Scurvy is vitamin C and Beriberi is vitamin B1. But same overall concept.
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