How are WW1 or WW2 era bombs still regularly found in gardens and houses around UK and Europe?

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The day after or week after these were dropped 60-100 years ago, did people not think, there’s a bomb over there we should make it safe.

Edit: I singled out the UK because they discovered a bomb from World War Two today in Plymouth. I know the UK is still in Europe.

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When they were little kids, my mom and her cousins were playing hide and seek under the family house in our little village in Poland. My grandfather was part of the partyzantka during WW 2 (guerilla) and so were my great-grandfathers, and part of what they did was provide and hide artillery and bombs, and general supplies. While playing my mom and the other kids found stuff under the house, went to their uncle and showed him a grenade in their hands. Multiple army trucks had to come to take away all the munitions that were still being stored there. This would’ve been the early 60s so not that long after the war, but still. A whole cache of weapons and explosives was stored under their feet for years.

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