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No Such Thing As A Fish

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Shipwrecks Are Incredibly Valuable

There's a thriving market in shipwreck theft, which I had never heard of before reading about this. So it's mad like 40 second World War ships that were sunk have already been partly or totally removed from the ocean. And it's because they're incredibly valuable. Can you guess why? Yes. Let me tell you why. They contain something which we need today. Like uranium. But there is one bit of good news, which is that all steel today is radioactive. It's getting less radioactive because we're not doing as many nuclear tests anymore. At the moment, at the time of recording, background radiation is decreasing.

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