Today I Found Out

That Time MI6 Spymaster Captain MANsfield Cumming Ordered His Spies to Use Semen as Invisible Ink (2019x253)

Fecha de emisión: Sept 21, 2019

Join War Thunder for free   →Some of our favorites: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLR0XuDegDqP10d4vrztQ0fVzNnTiQBEAA →Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 Follow Simon on social media: https://twitter.com/SimonWhistler https://www.instagram.com/simonwhistler/ Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from TodayIFoundOut: That Time Two Comic Artist Independently Created Dennis the Menace on the Same Day an Ocean Apart https://youtu.be/o1RCGQLDwds The Curious Case of Famed Philosopher Jeremy Bentham's Body https://youtu.be/Y4cGOEHU0iI In this video: The British Secret Intelligence Service, better known to the world as MI6 (Military Intelligence, Section 6), is, rather oddly for a supposedly secretive agency, one of the better known intelligence services in the world. While the work MI6 does today is top-secret, thanks to the wonders of the Freedom of Information Act, we’re able to peer into the mysterious agency’s beginnings and marvel at all the humourous things they did in their early days in the name of protecting British interests- like the time they told agents to use their own semen as ink when sending secret messages. We should probably mention at this point that the head of the agency telling the agents to do this was the aptly named Mansfield Smith-Cumming… Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2016/10/time-history-spies-used-semen-invisible-ink/ Sources: http://gizmodo.com/british-spies-used-semen-as-invisible-ink-during-wwi-1614656875 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/8015180/MI6-used-bodily-fluids-as-invisible-ink.html https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Ag7XAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT137&dq=mansfield+cumming+invisible+ink&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwia777BrdvPAhWMCMAKHfzvCP4Q6AEIHjAA#v=onepage&q=mansfield%20cumming%20invisible%20ink&f=false http://www.independent.co.