by Alicia Bones
” In 2017, a Massachusetts city hall was overrun with millions of drugstore beetles. When a pest control company was called to the building, they discovered the source: rotting civil defense crackers. Since the early 1960s, the crackers had been stored in aluminum cans in an underground bunker beneath city hall. Over the decades, leaks had caused the aluminum to crack open and the crackers to rot, attracting the insects. “
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The 20 Billion Cold War Survival Biscuits that Were Never Baked
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