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by ben_w 544 days ago
> There's also a bunch of brownfields in Western Europe, where buried WWI gas munitions are still causing havoc.

When I was considering land for a new-build near Berlin, some of the advice was specifically "don't bother with Oranienburg, there's a high chance the builder will find an unexploded WW2 bomb in the ground". It wasn't this specific article, but close enough: https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/unexploded-wwii...