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The WWII Baseball Grenade
🕑 Added 2023-02-24 11:15:01 +0000 UTCDirect link: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/GjBvvhIPJ-c
Only a few thousand BEANO T-13s were ever manufactured, and very few survived the war. Some were used. Some were lost. Some were recalled and destroyed by the military. They’re now so difficult to find – and such an oddity – that they fetch quite high prices at auction.
A few recent auctions I looked at saw the grenades selling for between $200 and $400. I don’t collect military memorabilia, so I don’t have much to compare it to. But, for me, that’d be a high price to pay for a historical item that I’d be constantly nervous about having in the house!
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Fascinating Horror
That is quite a story. Cannot believe I've never heard of this until now! It's on the list. As you say, would make an interesting episode around Christmas time
Sorry for the spam, also seen this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ot%C5%82oczyn_railway_accident?wprov=sfla1
Michael Rutherford
For something different (and Christmas themed), how about a video on the 1927 Santa Claus Bank Robbery? There's a really good video on it by The Casual Criminalist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbsA9NaJKRo
One for you here, sir https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Aggie_Bonfire_collapse
