i might be wrong, but i would not have thought aluminium shovels were durable. Sure, i can see them being handy at shoveling loose soil. But if you were going to use them to dig into the ground, they would get easily damaged.
I admit its been years since i last read (or listened to the Hardcore History podcasts) about the Punic Wars, so my recollection is a bit hazy. But reading this, i felt like i was reading some bizarre alternate reality version of history...
my memory is a bit blurry, but i remember watching an interview with that MMA dude. At the time he was some radio host and he talked against those Chinese martial arts masters (i mean the ones that claim to have supernatural powers). Then one of those Chinese martial arts masters challenged him...
Damn, that huge pile of rocks was only around 35 kg?! They must have been some kinda marshmallow rocks. Its no wonder then that he could break them with his fists.