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Forever Ago

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The History of Electric Cars

The US Army wanted to make sure troops fighting in World War II were getting enough vitamin C. Growers had tried freezing orange juice as early as the 1930s, but the result was a sludgy, discolored glop ew. By 1945, scientists at the US Department of Agriculture cracked the code and figured out how to evaporate the liquid in fresh juice so that the frozen stuff tasted good.

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