If you've ever believed that eating carrots will help you to see in the dark, then you've been retrospectively duped by a group of British civil servants from the 1940s.
If you already knew that the old adage was dreamed up by World War II propagandists, then you've probably been led to accept it's because London wanted to divert German attention away from British advances in aircraft radar technology.
According to this telling, the reason the Royal Air Force was so successful at thwarting the German air force, or the Luftwaffe's nighttime raids, was because its pilots were eating so many carrots — so no need for Hitler's spies to worry about any British advances in radar tech. But here again, you've been hoodwinked. This carrot-praising publicity blitz was primarily designed to deceive the United Kingdom's own citizens, rather anyone in the Third Reich.
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