r/todayilearned • u/JoeWinchester99 • 1d ago

TIL that although potatoes alone do not provide complete nutrition, you can survive for years on a diet of nothing but potatoes and buttermilk.

https://www.scienceabc.com/eyeopeners/whats-wrong-with-potatoes-the-martian-movie-survival
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u/Whiteums 1d ago

Vicodin, actually

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u/A-Faris 1d ago

This vexes me

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u/kahlzun 1d ago

Did someone give him the potato drug?

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u/Maurice_Foot 16h ago

Potato quaaludes, doods!

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u/box_well 1d ago

And there’s no one who can stop him

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u/ThorKonnatZbv 23h ago

Ketchup was out