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TIL that during WWII,British MI5 planned to sabotage Nazi factories using exploding rats dead rats stuffed with explosives, meant to be thrown into boilers. The shipment was intercepted, but Germans panicked, shut factories, diverted manpower, and searched obsessively without a single rat detonating

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