I learned this week that there is a Scottish Island (Gruinard) that's off-limits because some idiot thought it would be a good idea to drop anthrax-filled cakes inside Germany to help stop the war.
The test island was contaminated for 50 years.
Britain ran wartime tests on Gruinard Island that involved dropping anthrax-laced cakes, and the small Scottish island stayed off-limits and contaminated for the next fifty years.
I learned this week that there is a Scottish Island (Gruinard) that's off-limits because some idiot thought it would be a good idea to drop anthrax-filled cakes inside Germany to help stop the war.
The test island was contaminated for 50 years.
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