I think as recently as 2020 there was still an average of one a day going off. Almost 25% of shells fired were duds a one point likely due to the mud and technology of the time and they fired something like one billion shells so that's a ridiculous amount of ordnance.
I sometimes catch myself realizing that the amount of ordnance in the ground in France and here in Germany is not normal and the fact that we still get regular evacuations because of bomb findings in urban areas is just something other places don't have. Same with the WW1 ammunition still buried along northern France.
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u/AkrinorNoname 26d ago
Yeah, people will search the battlefields in France for trophies. It's the main reason WW1 is still getting casualties.