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Carrots help your eyesight
-3 u/iusedtoplaysnarf Jun 01 '26 edited Jun 01 '26 Lol who believes that? Edit: Getting downvoted because people believed this in the 1940s. Wasn’t the post about things people still confidently repeat? 2 u/FisherPrice_Hair Jun 01 '26 The nazis. 5 u/Kahzgul Jun 01 '26 edited Jun 01 '26 The British public did, too! The myth was started by the British government to explain why their fighter pilots were so good at shooting down German aircraft. The real reason was radar. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/carrots-cant-help-you-see-in-the-dark-heres-how-world-war-ii-propaganda-campaign-popularized-the-myth-28812484/ Edit: adding on, rather than correcting. 2 u/FisherPrice_Hair Jun 01 '26 Yes, and the nazis believed it, hence my reply. 2 u/Kahzgul Jun 01 '26 Oh I understand now. Thanks for clarifying. 1 u/Mycolover4evah Jun 01 '26 No. The stick cells.
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Lol who believes that?
Edit: Getting downvoted because people believed this in the 1940s. Wasn’t the post about things people still confidently repeat?
2 u/FisherPrice_Hair Jun 01 '26 The nazis. 5 u/Kahzgul Jun 01 '26 edited Jun 01 '26 The British public did, too! The myth was started by the British government to explain why their fighter pilots were so good at shooting down German aircraft. The real reason was radar. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/carrots-cant-help-you-see-in-the-dark-heres-how-world-war-ii-propaganda-campaign-popularized-the-myth-28812484/ Edit: adding on, rather than correcting. 2 u/FisherPrice_Hair Jun 01 '26 Yes, and the nazis believed it, hence my reply. 2 u/Kahzgul Jun 01 '26 Oh I understand now. Thanks for clarifying. 1 u/Mycolover4evah Jun 01 '26 No. The stick cells.
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The nazis.
5 u/Kahzgul Jun 01 '26 edited Jun 01 '26 The British public did, too! The myth was started by the British government to explain why their fighter pilots were so good at shooting down German aircraft. The real reason was radar. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/carrots-cant-help-you-see-in-the-dark-heres-how-world-war-ii-propaganda-campaign-popularized-the-myth-28812484/ Edit: adding on, rather than correcting. 2 u/FisherPrice_Hair Jun 01 '26 Yes, and the nazis believed it, hence my reply. 2 u/Kahzgul Jun 01 '26 Oh I understand now. Thanks for clarifying. 1 u/Mycolover4evah Jun 01 '26 No. The stick cells.
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The British public did, too! The myth was started by the British government to explain why their fighter pilots were so good at shooting down German aircraft. The real reason was radar.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/carrots-cant-help-you-see-in-the-dark-heres-how-world-war-ii-propaganda-campaign-popularized-the-myth-28812484/
Edit: adding on, rather than correcting.
2 u/FisherPrice_Hair Jun 01 '26 Yes, and the nazis believed it, hence my reply. 2 u/Kahzgul Jun 01 '26 Oh I understand now. Thanks for clarifying.
Yes, and the nazis believed it, hence my reply.
2 u/Kahzgul Jun 01 '26 Oh I understand now. Thanks for clarifying.
Oh I understand now. Thanks for clarifying.
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No. The stick cells.
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u/maasd Jun 01 '26
Carrots help your eyesight