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#587 - Rory Sutherland - 19 Of Human Behaviour's Weirdest Quirks
Modern Wisdom
A Gentlemanly Warfare
In the buildup to World War II, a bunch of big wigs in the UK government realized that war seems to be afoot. And they realized that we are woefully unprepared to be able to fight a war with this level of brutality. So what they did was try and create this web of miscreants basically. A garage inventor who created a three stories high caravan that was only able to go across certain roads because of the bridge clearance he needed. He made the world's first limpet mine which would then blow up U-boats or stuff. This is why you love it.
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