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So the sticky bomb was the brain child of Millis Jeffries

and it started sometime in 1938.

You said this is a British thing, right, Joe?

Right.

It just, you know, because I also just watched like, what was it, the guy

Richie movie, the Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare.

And it just struck me that like every time you hear anything about the British it's always like some guy named

Millis who just like is in a shed somewhere and comes up with this idea and they're just like the war department gives him like a million

You know a million pounds to like you know go have

at it but and this is back this is back when like you could really innovate like

none of us can innovate a bomb that would be bought by the United States

government to use in warfare.

But like in the 1930s, you'd be like,

what if a bomb stuck to something?

Be like, brilliant millets.

And not to mention, the guys inventing it

have just been just tinkering on the weekends they're not

engineers it's just a guy who's really into explosives you know if Timothy McVeigh

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