carrot, n.Trivia

Carrots are healthy --- they contain 0% fat

Carrots were purple until a 17th century mutation changed the colors to what we know now.

Carrots are orange only because Dutch growers cultivated them that way as a tribute to William of Orange – who led the the struggle for Dutch independence. The color stuck.

The idea that eating carrots helps you see in the dark was a lie invented by the British Airforce in WW2, in order to explain how British air raids were so successful in the dark without tipping the Germans off on the existence of radar.