Time to veg up the past

LETTUCE LIZ NOT FIRST LEGEND TO GROW

- 

Carrot's tops: "The carrots are cooked" was a coded Allied radio message alerting French Resistance fighters that the D-Day landings had begun.

The myth that eating carrots helped World War Two British pilots see in the dark was started to disguise the fact that they were using secret radar.

How's a sprout this? The cross traditionally made on the bottom of Brussels sprouts was because in Medieval times people thought demons lived between the leaves.

Peter Pan author JM Barrie always ordered sprouts when he could, but never actually ate them. He just liked how the words sounded.