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Comment In Germany every other day (Score 2) 68

Germany still digs up a huge amount of WWII explosives, about 2,000 tons every year.

Most are small items handled without much fuss, but big bombs in cities mean mass evacuations.

In the past decade, large-scale operations (thousands of residents moved) happen roughly 1 to 5 times a year.

Examples: 2016 Augsburg ~54,000 evacuated,
2017 Hanover ~50,000,
2017 Frankfurt ~70,000,
2018 Paderborn ~26,000.
Smaller but still serious ones happen more often, often in the low thousands.
So across the last 10 years you’re looking at maybe 10 to 50 major evacuations nationwide, plus countless smaller clearances.

Comment Nothing new (Score 1) 50

Asimov's “The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline” (1948).

In it, he invented a fictional chemical — thiotimoline — that dissolves before it touches water. He wrote it in the form of a serious scientific paper, with footnotes, jargon, and references, but the subject was pure nonsense.

Because the style was so convincing, some people at the time wondered if it was real. Asimov himself later joked that librarians and scientists would get requests for the “thiotimoline article” from puzzled readers who thought it was an actual research paper. He even followed up with sequels in the same pseudo-academic style.

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