#25: Night Vision
Carrots are good for you, but they can’t help you see in the dark. Carrots bestowing humans with night vision is a common myth that many of us believed as kids. But where in the world did this information come from? Interestingly, it dates back to WWII. British forces started pumping out carrot propaganda as a cover for what they were really doing to German bombers.
The Royal Air Force had broken the German Enigma machine, but they didn’t want the Germans to know that. They started saying that eating a ton of carrots allowed their forces to hone their night vision and shoot down German bombers in the middle of the night. This myth took off and was accepted as fact. The whole story of how the Royal Air Force intercepted secret messages wasn’t revealed until the ‘90s. By then, carrot’s reputation as a super veggie was already solidified.