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The idea that eating carrots could improve your eyesight received its biggest promotion during World War II.

The British Air Ministry attributed the fact that its night fighter pilots were successful at shooting down German pilots because of a special diet including a large amount of carrots.

The German intelligence actually fell for the story.

The real reason for the success was due to a line of radar masts on the southern and eastern coasts of England, which could detect bombers up to 100 miles away.

The British invented the story to cover up the real reason for their success.


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While it is a general assumption that humans will evolve and grow larger brains in order to accomodate increased intelligence, neurophysiologists have come to the conclusion that humans have physiologically attained optimum brain size and that enlarging the brain would actually make humans stupider. No wonder we notice people with big heads so easily ..


Any other myths out there you'd care to share?

The only myth I've head and Iknow is not true:

If you keep playng with yourself, your going to go blind!

















I can still see can''t You!

took me awhile to read that as my eye sight is failing..

Here's another few.

Britain during WW2 were the only ones who had radar (the Germans also had the invention).

Flying discs were first discovered in modern history when one came to ground in Roswell new Mexico.(whoops, seems like the airmen on both sides followed on their bombing runs who reported "Foo Fighters" stories seemed to be forgotten).

The British Royal family are actually British( well the man who cleans the Rolls maybe but the rest of them certainly seemed to have a rather Germanic name!)

The Germans in WW2 were asked not to invade southern France so not to spoil the British Kings "holiday" where he was conveniently photographed doing the Nazi salute.

Most people arent even aware of our modern history, i've even heard one person i know under 30 say that Adolf Hitler was from Czechoslovakia and Osama Bin Ladin lived in london!!

I wish i were joking, it's too crass to even joke about it.That's how ignorant people are these days.

My friend George.. is black.. and he cant dance to save his life!

Myth busted!

spread the word my man ... sometimes it sticks.

My mother used to tell me:

"If you keep rolling your eyes, they are going to stay that way!"

So far they haven't

There was also another widely circulated less than half truth to make the Brits during WW2 believe they were contributing to the war effort by having all their metal fences and gates removed on the basis that this was being recycled and turned into aircraft parts to defeat the luftwaffe!!

This was of course absolute rubbish and somewhere in the uk there is probably a very large pile of gates just sitting their still rusting away!!

that seems a tad useless. Unless it was to 'keep busy', 'keep your mind off the war' psychobabble..

When my cousin was little, his mom would tell him "keep playing with your knob and it'll come off in your hand one day". Far as I know, he still has it.
No you dirty buggers, she is from the old school and meant it literally.

And his door is still working

my gran always used to say eat your carrots they're " good for your eyesight", one day I questioned her and the wise old girl said "have you ever seen a rabbit wearing glasses then!"