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This is a myth from 1940s Britain
"How is the RAF so incredibly good at spotting German planes at night and in the fog?"
don't say radar don't say radar don't say radar "ummm yes... its carrots. Carrots, lots of carrots, that's it! Its because they... um... improve eyesight."
It's funny that for an 'average' person at that time a carrot theory was satisfying enough to stop looking for other explanation, ie technology based.
It's not that it was a satisfying theory, it's that it was misinformation spread by the propaganda machine at the time.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/carrots-cant-help-you-see-in-the-dark-heres-how-world-war-ii-propaganda-campaign-popularized-the-myth-28812484/