h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

The reflective cat's eyes on the roads were there to wake up the driver when they fell asleep at the wheel.

If you eat your carrots, you can see in the dark.

That one is almost true!

If you're on about the carrots, they don't help you see in the dark, but they do contain something that you need for healthy eyes.

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That is what I meant by 'almost true'...

But if you eat too many you turn orange.......really!

That's the great thing about that minging Sunny Delight. Drink too much if that and you'll turn orange -- true!

In a way almost exactly true. Vitamin D and carotene do help your eyesight and most 'cat's eyes' rumble your tires if you roll over them in a daze!

Isn't vitamin A retinol? Or is my memory lying to me? Why not just have a bag of instead

Your body turns the carotene into retinol (Vit A) which is the one your eyes need.

Can I get that by drinking Irn-Bru?

What does it list as ingredients?

It is made in Scotland from girders

Has that got a ward of it's own at the hospital, like McKewan's?

Talking about carrots...hundreds of years ago they weren't actually orange - in fact they were anything but! You could have purple, yellow and even black carrots. Orange carrots were not available until tthe 17th century when a Dutch farmer found out a way to produce them in the orange colour that we now know and love.