stackyFACTSNothing screams 'For King and Country' quite like mailing your commanding officer a biohazard.
Nothing screams 'For King and Country' quite like mailing your commanding officer a biohazard. During WWI, the British Secret Intelligence Service found that bodily fluids made great invisible ink because they didn't react to standard iodine detection methods. Unfortunately, the agents apparently forgot that organic matter decays. The brilliant plan was eventually scrapped when letters started arriving in London smelling aggressively of stale bodily fluids.
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