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They're Still Finding WWII Bombs In England KABOOM!

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A World War II bomb is blown up in Exeter, England over the weekend.  Germany is still sort of bombing England, apparently.  Seventy-six years after the end of World War II a 2,200 German bomb was found at a construction site in a densely populated area of Exeter.  Officials were forced to blow up the device, which damaged several nearby homes.  According to the BBC:  "A structural engineer said doors and windows of nearby houses had been 'blown through' by the blast.  Hundreds of people evacuated from the area on Friday spend a third night away from home." The blast left a crater so deep an engineer said you could easily park three double decker buses in it.  The blast also tossed shrapnel, rocks and dirt hundreds of feet.  After the explosion, people could hear sand blowing off the trees when winds picked up.  Though a number of houses suffered significant damage, it could have been worse. Army personnel positioned reinforced sandbags so mu...