Germans looked 3 times for radar, they didn’t find anything the first two times on the third they found what was British radar signals but they didn’t match the German ones so they thought it was something else. The whole thing of carrots was done to make people plant allotments not as an anti espionage tactic
Tbf Carrots do help with eye health but no one is getting night vision from eating them. The germans probably thought that carrots were either a code word for some night vision granting superfood.
Carrots do help with forming Vitamin A through the use of beta carotene which in turn does help with general eyesight so got to make sure you eat your veggies kids
That was actually the backbone of this myth. Essentially, carrots make sure your eyes don't get worse (and that you don't get night blindness), so the narrative was changed to make it seem like carrots make you see better.
They don't help your general eyesight. The retinol they create is used in the synthesis of rods in the retina, which help in night vision or dark adaption.
imma nerd out here and go " umm akshually the plane that is dropping the bombs is a BF-110, a heavy fighter. the HE-111 was the one that that actually did the blitz 🤓"
@@cheeseballs1983it helps your vision. Its the leading cause of preventable blindness. I have taken large doses and the lubrication of my eye does seem to be better and the vision also. Vitamin a does many things not just a sophisticated singular thing in the eye. This is ironically the true myth going around in the last 10 plus years.
For reference, these are the war machines Britain invented. - Radar - Metal Ships - Tanks - First Fast Reload one shot rifle - Aircraft - Radio (Communications)
One error you made the radar was a first of its kind and wasn’t heavily reliable as German planes could’ve moved any times to a different direction and the radar didn’t detect it properly so they brist kinda also had to guess where they were going before sending the raf and the raf could’ve just went to the wrong location but luckily the German planes stayed in the same route
It was clear enough. The radar had a big delay and when they'd send the RAF to the predicted locations, the Germans could've easily went a different direction making the RAF be on the wrong route.
Mom : your playing game for day ! Eat some carrots and stop playing game ! Me : * show my mom this video * see it German propaga- Also Me : * get slap and combust into pieces *
Other fun facts about this. The propoganda had a morale boosting effect as carrots were something the british had alot of so it made the people happier to eat them as they were seen as healthy. The germans heard this and started restricting some pilots diets to include vast amounts of carrots. Carrots contain beta carotene which in large quantities can have an "orange dying effect of skin tone most noticable in caucasians. As such there were a few more pilots in the luftwaffe walking around with a bad new Jersey tan than you realize.
Carrot actually gets your eye better the reason why it doesn't have vitamin A it has things in it that create vitamin A and vitamin A is good for eye sight
Carrots actually do have something called carotene that turns into vitamin a which is essential for retina strength though. So it doesn’t improve eyesight but it does help preserve it
Um Actually, that myth just says that carrots can help you see at night. The other myth about carrots is that carrots help you see better in general, which is only true about carrots that aren't orange. Orange carrots are a genetic mutation that caught people's eye in the market, thus selling better. But orange carrots lack certain nutrients that yellow and purple carrots still contain, nutrients that might improve one's eyesight.
It’s cool seeing you bring back and adapt this story, almost forgot it, thanks! But this is a different version, the real one was about an ace night pilot who became famous and the propaganda minister made him say he ate carrots.
John "Cat's Eyes" Cunningham. Someone, decades after the event (I think it might have been Jimmy Carr) suggested that it might have been better to attribute his success not to carrots, but "Lightly underdone chicken"...
this was all started very close to the largest port in England - Felixstowe, Suffolk. The specific location was a place called Bordsey manor. The manor and its grounds are now used as a PGL site - if anybody wanted to know
Well, carrots are a great source of B-carotene, which is a precursor of vitamin A. If you have a deficit in vitamin A one of the first symptoms is blindness with low light. So while carrots cannot improve your night vission they certainly help to mantain it!
Well, actually the vitamin A actually helps the body to secret a hormone that allows you to see you in dark Not like a night vision, duh, but you know how you can see the shapes of objects in a very little light environments if you stayed in that environment for long enough? It's that hormone doing it. The hormone breaks down when contacted with light. Lack of vitamin A causes "Night Blindness"
RU-vid appersntly shadowdeleted my reply so here is my message. Well, actually the vitamin A helps the body to activate Melatonin which allows you to see in dark. Not like a night vision, duh, but you know how you can see the shapes of objects in a very dim environment if you stayed in that environment for long enough? It's that hormone doing it. The hormone breaks down when contacted with light. Lack of vitamin A causes "Night Blindness".
Eschushe me 🤓, but carrots acshually contain beta carotene, which can be converted into vitamin A by your body, and a deficiency in vitamin A can lead to cloudy vision and especially poor night vision, and since things like meat and eggs which contain vitamin A were being rationed, carrots would be a good substitute (I do not know if that was an intensional decision though).
