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421: No Such Thing As An Elephant On A Chessboard

No Such Thing As A Fish

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How Can You Prevent Scurvy With Lemons?

James lynde famously did the first ever randomize control trial, people say. He discovered that you could prevent scurvy with lemons. Then d then they started calling british sailors lime because they used to have lime juice. And it is partly because it's not a very good lemon detector. It turns out there's vitimin sea, in almost everything. You have to work quite hard to completely deprive yourself of vitimancya so people get confused. The signals get very mixed. But i don'tno, the idea of all these ancient wonds you'de completely forgotten about, reopening it's pretty l all your axes ring up and break up with

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