PugJesus"Our eyes are just REALLY good"
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1906791/our-eyes-are-just-really-good
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.
deathmetal27That’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.