Published on: 2026-10-09
Weird Inventions and Technology
Which of these bizarre historical inventions was actually used by the United States military during World War II?
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Believe it or not, the military seriously experimented with attaching miniature napalm bombs to Mexican free-tailed bats. The plan was to release them over Japanese cities, hoping they would roost in buildings before igniting. The rocket-powered jetpacks were pure science fiction back then, the invisible ink idea sounds like a spy movie trope that was not a standard deployment, and mosquito drones would have been impossible with 1940s technology unless we were secretly being visited by time travelers!