Now some of you may have heard of Ferdinand Magellan, the famed Portuguese explorer who created a trade route, the first one, between Europe and India. In 1520, you might not know, that out of 230 of his sailors, 208 died mainly due to scurvy. During the 1700s, scurvy killed more British sailors than wartime action. And one more example which blows my mind. During the Seven Year War, the British enlisted nearly 185,000 sailors, out of which 133,000 died. The main culprit? Yeah, scurvy.