tidbits cross time

The island of Lemnos had a periodic ritual by which all the fires were put out, rites were performed to propitiate the dead, and the fires, especially of those people whose professions needed fire, were relit with fire that was brought from Delos. In event that the fire reached Lemnos early, they would wait on the high seas.

Captain Cook got his crew to eat sauerkraut against scurvy by having plates of it prepared for the officers' mess, but not the sailors', who had to explicitly ask for it. They quickly picked up the practice.

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