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

Question

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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Answer 1

For scale: on the first day of the Battle of Verdun, the Germans alone fired **1M shells in 10 hours**, and that battle lasted ~10 months .

That’s a lot of shells, buried in the earth. You usually only find them when you dig to build something