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Popeye's spinach strength came from a decimal error
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The creators of Popeye specifically chose canned spinach to be the source of his legendary super strength based on a wildly inaccurate German scientific study from 1870. A careless chemist had accidentally misplaced a decimal point when transcribing his data, artificially inflating the vegetable's reported nutritional iron content by a factor of ten.
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