5 Minute Friday: Rectum? Damn Near Evacuated ’Em

⚠️ Not Safe for Work / Adult Content Warning ⚠️

Sometimes history refuses to stay in the past. And sometimes… it shows up in an emergency room.

This Five Minute Friday dives into a truly unbelievable modern news story involving a World War I artillery shell, one very bad decision, and a French hospital that suddenly had to take explosive history very seriously. It’s a reminder that just because something is old doesn’t mean it’s safe—and that curiosity without common sense is how you end up evacuating a building.

We ask the important questions:

• How does something like this even happen?
• Why are WWI explosives still turning up?
• And what life choices lead to this particular outcome?

Spoiler: History is wild, humans are weirder, and museums exist for a reason.

What We Talk About

• A real Vice news story involving a live WWI artillery shell and a hospital evacuation
• Why unexploded ordnance from World War I is still being discovered today
• The difference between “historical artifact” and “active explosive”
• How history occasionally re-enters the present in the most unhinged way possible

Read the Article

• Vice: A Man Turned Up at Hospital With a Live WWI Artillery Shell in His Butt
• https://www.vice.com/en/article/a-man-turned-up-at-hospital-with-a-live-wwi-artillery-shell-in-his-butt/ [vice.com]

About the Show

Rainy Day Rabbit Holes explores strange history, baffling decisions, forgotten stories, and the moments when the past collides violently—or hilariously—with the present.

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👉www.rainydayrabbitholes.com

⚠️ Not Safe for Work / Adult Content Warning ⚠️

This episode discusses an explicit real‑world news story involving adult bodily injury, medical emergency, and crude subject matter. Listener discretion is strongly advised. Do not listen at work, around children, or polite society.

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