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Lighting hit a WWI bomb forgotten by the British and the bomb killed a cow!

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Lighting hit a WWI bomb forgotten by the British and the bomb killed a cow!

This cow could be considered a close relative of “bad luck Brian”, especially since it is considered the single unluckiest cow in history of existence because it died from a bomb explosion that was caused from a lighting that was able to detonate a 50,000 pound bomb that was forgotten by Britain for over 20 years!

During WWI, 21 enormous mines were buried in the Belgian countryside by the British army, making these 21 mines the largest planned non-nuclear explosion in history!

General Herbert Plumer of the British army spent 18 months planning this single deadliest non-nuclear blast, making each mine heavier than 50,000 pounds each! That would be a grand total of 600 tons!

However, only 19 of those bombs went off, killing over 10,000 Germans. One of the two remaining bombs was struck by lighting and thus it killed the poor cow. As for the other one it's location it’s still unknown. Let’s hope “Bad Luck Brian” doesn’t visit Belgian territory anytime soon.

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