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Originally Posted by Maids! Maids! Maids!
Please think back a little. You have no recall of nautical beriberi (or scurvy for that matter) coming up a few times in fifth or sixth grade history? I have a funny feeling most Americans were taught about beriberi in middle school or junior high.
I mention scurvy because that particular nautical scourge had a happier ending. People seem to better at remembering happy endings.  |
Limeys are more of a British history thing thing than American. But that being said, American history doesn't deal with vitamin deficiencies. It's mostly dealt in biology and health classes, and we generally don't care much for those kind of classes, nor do we (as a whole) remember stuff from middle school and high school.
There are some interesting segments on American television that quiz random folks on the street for "common" knowledge (and the show "Are You Smarter than a Fifth-Grader?)... and see what the "average Joe American" knows....