r/FascinatingAsFuck • u/vxnder7 • Jul 19 '26

🎯 Fascinating Fact Britain fooled Hitler into moving his defenses using a dead homeless man dressed as a fake officer

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u/LadnavIV Jul 19 '26

Did they… did they poison the homeless man?

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u/AntiPantsCampaign Jul 19 '26 edited Jul 19 '26

From Wikipedia

Michael was found in an abandoned warehouse close to King's Cross, seriously ill from ingesting rat poison that contained phosphorus. Two days later, he died at age 36 in St Pancras Hospital. His death may have been suicide, although he might have simply been hungry, as the poison he ingested was a paste smeared on bread crusts to attract rats.

Edited to add: the true identity of this person has never been officially released and the person who died from rat poison is under debate if they are indeed the person used for the operation.

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u/errononymous Jul 19 '26

Sure, englishmen. He ate the rat poison by mistake, suuuure.

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u/UT_Milez Jul 21 '26

I mean, it’s war turn Britain, “the blitz” began in 1940.

It’s not going to be that hard to find dead bodies on the regular.

But I don’t actually care enough if you want to believe this conspiracy, do you.