To be fair to the British Museum, at the time that they were most heavily involved with taking artifacts from other countries, those countries had no interest or capability to preserve them. Sometimes the locals were downright hateful toward these artifacts. As one example, it is a common myth that Napoleon used the Sphinx and Great Pyramids as target practice for his army during his campaign in Egypt. The truth is that it wasn't Napoleon who did that, but rather the Egyptian Mamelukes that Napoleon was fighting against. Because their brand of Islam declared that anything built in the "time of ignorance" (i.e. before the Prophet Muhammad lived) had no value, and that some of it should be destroyed outright for being idols to false gods. Napoleon was actually so impressed and enamored by the history of Egypt that he started the very first society of Egyptology in the world, and later the British followed his lead. Meaning that the British and French who were going around snatching things up for their museums were often the only reason these objects and artifacts survived at all.
@dave_h_8742
8 ай бұрын
But hey truth gets in the way of a "fake news" story
@martinosborne4703
8 ай бұрын
which begs the question: is it really stealing when the other people throw it away?
@jackhammertwo1
8 ай бұрын
Ah yeah, Near end WW2/ Cold War era Saw all kind of weaponized animal based weirdness Ranging from but not limited to: hordes of bats flying around with incendiary devices, pigeon guided misiles or something like that, and the most infamous of all,Cat with an implanted listening device to Spy on KGB Agents.
@davidkintzer1604
8 ай бұрын
Before TFE was bullied by unsubscribe podcast into making long form videos he did a bunch of short videos doing "reviews" of military MOS and weapons systems. These were his origns
@zgreen9673
8 ай бұрын
The Fat Electrician also has a video on the explosive rats: Anti-Tank Dogs & Explosive Rats Insane Animal Weapons Used In WW2!
@danbrit9848
8 ай бұрын
sky high microwaved nuggies
@FrogmanAnime
8 ай бұрын
Hi Lauren, just want you to know that the fat electrician has a video about animals in war and the rat bombs were included. He has two other animal videos on his channel, one of which is the bat bomb I can’t think of the other one it’s mentioned in the animal video though
@FrogmanAnime
8 ай бұрын
Also, the fat electrician has a new video out released just today. It’s on the funny tanks of World War II. Both you and Kit would probably get a kick out of it.
@dave_h_8742
8 ай бұрын
@@FrogmanAnimeHobart's funnies
@dave_h_8742
8 ай бұрын
USA had Dolphins with limpet mines
@FrogmanAnime
8 ай бұрын
@@dave_h_8742 I know they’re called that…I’d just come across from watching it at TFE…but most people don’t know they were called Hobart’s funnies so I just called them the funny tanks. Just in case someone didn’t know; but might have known they existed…
@FrogmanAnime
8 ай бұрын
@@dave_h_8742 I’d heard of those, haven’t seen a lot on them…I might track down some vids on those mine laying dolphins, might be fun
@borttorbbq2556
8 ай бұрын
It new clear. Not nukular
@jaskim5723
8 ай бұрын
Like I told him this is not a quack bang, it’s a cluck boom.
@crustybomb115
8 ай бұрын
one might say the chickens have come home to roost...
@andrewfenn4534
7 ай бұрын
Nice
@joefravel7974
8 ай бұрын
The only time the British were going to make a crispy chicken so in healthy that America would be proud
@AmericansLearn
8 ай бұрын
hahahahahahaha!
@jonadabtheunsightly
8 ай бұрын
Honestly, the chicken is a little unorthodox, but it would've worked reasonably reliably. The crazy thing here, is the concept of a nuclear mine. Fundamentally, that's the kind of idea college students come up late at night with when they're joking around procrastinating instead of actually doing their homework, and they talk (and laugh) about for thirty whole seconds, and then they move on because it's obviously dumb. Nuclear mines. It's right up there with nuclear grenades, alkali-metal contacts, and napalm suppositories.
@anzaca1
8 ай бұрын
Please react to the soldier who took meth.
@5Ohm872
8 ай бұрын
She already did that 😉✌️
@Pterodactylus548
8 ай бұрын
Remember to ask Chicken NUGGETS on your drive oinn MacWhatever queue. Not Chicken Nukes! Magawa was one of hundreds of “hero rats” that have been trained since the 1990s by APOPO to detect landmines. In 30 minutes, these rats can scan swathes of land as big as tennis courts for any presence of explosive chemicals. A human being with a metal detector will take four days to do the same job.
@BlackWolf18C
8 ай бұрын
It is incredibly British humor to release something on April Fool's Day that certainly looks like a joke but is totally real and true, then claim that they don't make jokes after the 1st is over. It was totally a joke, it was just also true. They knew exactly what they were doing.
@toddnesbitt3113
8 ай бұрын
To be fair, I’ve seen the “bad spaghetti crop” black and white joke they pulled.
@davidshafer1872
8 ай бұрын
This video is from The Fat Electricians more saltier videos. And if you think this is wacky wait until to see the pigeon homing missile.
@george217
8 ай бұрын
The US Navy tried to make pigeon guided glide bomb in WWII.
@arielrife3792
8 ай бұрын
I think they also attempted to use cats as well. But I do know they made bat bombs using a cylindrical cage and napalm
@george217
8 ай бұрын
@@arielrife3792 Yep. And Dogs.
@arielrife3792
8 ай бұрын
@@george217 I’m pretty sure the Soviets tried using dogs, but I could be wrong
@george217
8 ай бұрын
@@arielrife3792 So did the US. The Soviets strapped bombs to backs of dogs to go underneath tanks.
@arielrife3792
8 ай бұрын
@@george217 what did the US do with dogs?
@Luckragol
8 ай бұрын
lul, i luld.
@fredamedic2000
8 ай бұрын
He did videos on America's bat bomb and pigeon missle
@AmericansLearn
8 ай бұрын
Excellent
@ChadTalos
8 ай бұрын
Next up America's bat bomb
@AmericansLearn
8 ай бұрын
the bat bomb, huh? I guess I'm gonna have a ton of content to chew through now that I've opened this can of worms, huh?
@matthewlaird5235
8 ай бұрын
I was an AW in the U.S. Navy. One of the coolest schools I went to was SERE school. This school was the most fun I have ever had in the navy. Also it’s kinda secret, secret.
@yankee_tango
8 ай бұрын
Speaking of awesome weapons, check the Fat Electrician's video about the M-50 Ontos, aka the Bazooka Tank.
@arielrife3792
8 ай бұрын
It feels weird that it’s not an American weapon, but it’s still amazing. Also, the “muscle memory” jab was top tier 😂
@PaulGAckerman
8 ай бұрын
That disclaimer at the beginning reminds me of that line in MiB: "We at the FBI do not have a sense of humor that we sre aware of."
@frank1963
8 ай бұрын
Hi Lauren, I would love to see you react to Epica again!?
@gregmiller-qq5on
8 ай бұрын
The Fat Electrician has a short video on the 'Rat Bombs' and some other animal based devices.
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