mabelmoments:

Google doodle featuring E.C. Segar’s Popeye on what would have been Segar’s 115th birthday.

And why spinach?

Segar chose the vegetable due to an 1870 German study which claimed it contained the same amount of iron as red meat.

The strength-giving properties of spinach were later revised however, after it was found a stray decimal point had led researchers to believe the vegetable contained ten times its actual iron content. (via guardian uk)