r/todayilearned • u/Valuable-Credit6167 • 2h ago

TIL that during WWII, Italy claimed one of its pilots had bombed and killed the Loch Ness Monster.

https://www.forcesnews.com/feature/loch-ness-monster-fascism-and-eggs-death-when-italy-claimed-have-killed-nessie
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u/ggallardo02 2h ago

And we haven't seen more footage since then.

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u/Whole_Mongoose1854 1h ago

Ya seems like the evidence supports their claim.

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u/levosis1 1h ago

Pamphlets have been up ever since. Have you seen my Loch Ness?

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u/RomanItalianEuropean 2h ago edited 1h ago

Not really, Alllied newspapers such as the Australian The World's News or the British Daily Mail reported that the Italian media (in a version the Radio, in another version the Fascist Popolo D'Italia) claimed this. Which is quite different, as the point of those stories is to claim "the enemy is lunatic".

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u/stfumate 1h ago

That's exactly what a Roman Italian European would say...

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u/Valuable-Credit6167 1h ago

You’ve edited your comment 3 different times, almost completing changing it 3 different times.

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u/RomanItalianEuropean 1h ago

My english is bad sorry and I had wrongly described the World's News as British rather than Australian.

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u/Valuable-Credit6167 1h ago

Yes, it’s now an AI generated comment.

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u/RomanItalianEuropean 1h ago

I can guarantee you it's not AI. I adjust my comments on my own and type fast.

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u/Valuable-Credit6167 1h ago

You struggle with English but you know to italicise news sources? Sure.

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u/SisterRosaria2021 1h ago

Should you really be nitpicking people on inadequate grammar when you concluded your post title with a full stop which most people these days consider unnecessary and borderline pretentious in social media conversations?

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u/terraformars0123 4m ago

You are just salty that someone called you out for being wrong.

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u/Fritzkreig 2h ago

Hand gestures!

That sounds so Italian, bet it would make a great dish as well‽

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u/QuitWhinging 1h ago

That-a 👐🏻 sounds-a ☝🏻 so 🫴🏻 Italiano 🫰🏻 !

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u/ScissorNightRam 1h ago

Prove them wrong

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u/BrokenEyeReborn 1h ago

I wouldn't worry. As long as it's been around, it stands to reason that there's more than one.

Or none. One or the other.

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u/Antique-Swordfish-14 1h ago

You can't kill the Loch Ness monster. Everyone knows that.

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u/SheriffBartholomew 12m ago

I never noticed before that the Loch Ness Monster looks very tiny in that photograph. This is definitely not a picture of a giant creature. Look at the size of the ripples in comparison to the "monster".

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u/DalekPredator 1h ago

Sounds like people had a lot of fun with the Nessie story during the war, even Australia got involved.

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u/ComfortableGround403 1h ago

So,they bombed Soctland and got away with it ? Riight

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u/All_Your_Base 1h ago edited 1h ago

Never forget: Fearless Leader shot a round of 18 on a 4-par 18 hole course.

I never trust "claimed," Ever.

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u/schuylkilladelphia 2h ago

I mean, they also said they invaded France

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u/Beginning-Working-38 1h ago

The Italians couldn’t even bomb Nice.

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u/ggallardo02 1h ago

Well, bombing is not nice. Quite the opposite.

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u/IcanthearChris 1h ago

Just lying for no good reason

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u/TheBanishedBard 1h ago

If you rearrange the letters in your display name it says "reich anarchist"