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Tanning salons don't want you to know this one trick (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (4 children)

"Well my skin's not orange yet but I can see as well at night as I can at noontime now."

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

So do you not see during noontime that well?

I only ask because the carrots giving you better night vision was a lie made up during WW2 in order to keep radar tech a secret. Carrots might improve eyesight if you have weak eyesight, but it ~~does~~ doesn't give you super vision.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/carrots-cant-help-you-see-in-the-dark-heres-how-world-war-ii-propaganda-campaign-popularized-the-myth-28812484/

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

but it does give you super vision

confirmed

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Fixed my mistake. I clearly need more carrots.