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Explanation: In WW2, Britain spread word that carrots improved night-time vision, and that its pilots were eating lots of carrots, in order to ‘explain’ why they were intercepting Nazi planes over Britain so reliably at night.
In reality, they’d figured out how to fit radar on their fighter planes, and wanted to keep that a secret for as long as they could. The hope was that Nazis keeping tabs on civilian British news would fall for the ruse, and buy UK plane radar a little more time undetected.
Carrots may prevent nutritional deficiencies that lead to poor night-time vision, but they aren’t going to make your MK1 eyeballs into NODs.
That’s also kinda why tanks are called tanks today.
When the British were building the Mark I Landship (world’s first “tank”) it was a top secret project. However there were hundreds of civilian workers working on the assembly lines. Expecting that workers would start questioning about what they were building, the British war department told the workers that they were building “water carrying tanks”.
Then since no popular formal name was given to the new armoured vehicles, the name “tank” stuck.
You know, I’ve heard that story a bunch of times, but nobody ever says the conclusion. How long did the ruse work?
I don’t think the Brits ever figured out if it was successful OR unsuccessful. Propaganda can be funny like that. XD
This lie was repeated for years in American pop culture, so I think then and future generations of Americans fell for it more than the Germans did.
i mean, that tracks lol
There’s evidence that the nazis at least knew about the claim, but everything I’ve ever found backs you up 100%, there’s no evidence that the nazis ever fell for or or dismissed it. I can’t imagine anyone gave it more than a minute’s thought though, like even back then it was pretty transparently silly.
German who grew up in the 21st century here. The myth that eating lots of carrots will improve your eyesight/nightvision significantly is still more or less alive and well here. I sort of believed it until I saw a variation on this meme for the first time.
I’d say it seems to have worked pretty well.
German who grew up in the 21st century here. The myth that eating lots of carrots will improve your eyesight/nightvision significantly is still more or less alive and well here.
As a millennial American, I was taught it as a child, and I’d estimate most people I know believe it to be true.
Blind Nazi after eating carrot.
It was double pronged, I think. Carrots are quick and easy to grow in an allotment. Telling British kids that the fighter pilots they saw overhead were eating lots of carrots helped a lot. If only for the morale of people.
Getting kids to eat their veg without complaining isn’t a new problem.
One of my favorite historical “old wives tales” readily disproven, like cracking your knuckles causing arthritis or sitting too close to the TV (which definitely used to be a problem).
Wait, cracking knuckles is unproblematic?
The myth was that it caused arthritis. A chap called Donald Unger decided to test it by only cracking the knuckles in one hand and never the other, for decades. There was no difference between the two hands.
huh. i was always told that they threw carrots at the other planes during dogfights as a way of taunting them. tomato tomato
Throwing vegetables at enemies…
But when I do it it’s unethical and dehumanising for the patient.
it was the RAF so it was princess. remember she could fly
It’s actually a common myth that rabbits eat a lot of carrots. The plain truth is that they have radar, so they simply don’t need to.
But eat enough of em and you’ll get carotenemia (skin turns orange), so maybe trump thought this too
It’d be nice if we could go one post without seeing the fuckwad’s name.
Many app can filter post/comment by keyword. If not in webview, maybe try uBlock origin or uBlocklist with custom site definition. Pretty sure can also match text content.
i try to call him Krasnov for similar reasons
maybe i’ll call him turnip for a day. that might work
Mmmm true to be fair
there are creatures who have never seen the light of day who eat more veg than trump.
How well do you know Trumps diet, and would you be able to slip something in there?
If I could slip something in his food, theoretically it would have been done already.
Way to get out hopes up
That’s what you get for listening to a dumbass, dumbass.
my dude:
rumor is he only eats mcdonalds, orders 20 hamberders and tries to pick which 7 he eats from the pile randomly, then gives the rest to his trash can to eat. it’s been an anti-poisoning habit he’s done for years, but only become necessary recently (unless dining with family)
