For the radar one there's a pretty good (and funny) story of how the British hid its discovery from Germany and the rest of the world.
Pretty much they were shooting down the German planes very effectively thanks to the radar they had developed since they knew when an attack was imminent. But to keep the Germans from figuring out what was going on they made a very clever propaganda campaign advertising that eating carrots helps your eyes (which is true but only if your really lacking vitamin A which most people in developed countries aren't En.wikipedia.org) So the German spies believed the propaganda campaign and reported to their superiors that the reason why the British can see the planes is because they are all eating carrots. Therefore it just spread from there but the truth is that carrots don't magically make your eyesight better unless you have vitamin A deficiency.
Wish I could blast my way to freedom when stuck in traffic, anybody want to donate an RPG?
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and a Vespa.
O_o ..Vespa is Italian.
For the radar one there's a pretty good (and funny) story of how the British hid its discovery from Germany and the rest of the world.
Pretty much they were shooting down the German planes very effectively thanks to the radar they had developed since they knew when an attack was imminent. But to keep the Germans from figuring out what was going on they made a very clever propaganda campaign advertising that eating carrots helps your eyes (which is true but only if your really lacking vitamin A which most people in developed countries aren't En.wikipedia.org) So the German spies believed the propaganda campaign and reported to their superiors that the reason why the British can see the planes is because they are all eating carrots. Therefore it just spread from there but the truth is that carrots don't magically make your eyesight better unless you have vitamin A deficiency.