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Potholer Started conversation Mar 13, 2000
I understood that the 'Carrots help you see in the dark' tale was British disinformation from the Second World War to try and persuade the German miltary that allied pilots were using vegatable-enhanced eyesight to locate planes and U-boats at night, rather than radar.
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