A Metal Detector Led This Hobbyist To Uncover Something He Never Anticipated

First Dig

Mike was done with wondering, he needed to know. He set shovel to dirt and began to destroy the earth beneath his feet. His instincts were telling him that this was going to be something incredible. He crafted a hole measuring about one foot wide and two feet deep. He had no way of knowing that this tiny hole would not be nearly enough to collect what was down there...

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The More You Know

  • M&M stands for Mars and Murrie.
  • In 1945, Dwight D. Eisenhower predicted that people would try to dispel the holocaust as a falsehood, and ordered all possible photographs taken of the Nazi crimes to hinder any such attempts.
  • The Nobel Committee declined to award the Nobel Peace Prize in 1948 because "there was no suitable living candidate." This was meant as tribute to Mahatma Gandhi, who was assassinated earlier that year without receiving the Prize.
  • Danny Devito used to work as a hairdresser. For corpses.
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