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j6yEM TIL about NH 96566-KN The First Computer Bug, a moth found in a computer, 1947
W7MRY TIL the US military had plans for the invasion of mainland Japan named Operation Downfall. It was estimated that there would be 500k-4m US casualties and 5-10m Japanese casualties.
wojg7 TIL that on 18 December 1944, Admiral Halsey’s Third Fleet encountered a powerful Pacific Typhoon east of the Philippines. Three destroyers were sunk, 146 planes destroyed, 27 ships damaged, and 790 sailors killed; it remains the worst natural disaster in U.S. Navy history.