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TIL that in 1952 5 people were killed in a Japanese attack on California in the Battle of LA. Except the Japanese never attacked at all, fear over misidentified weather balloons caused a massive response of anti-aircraft guns, resulting in three heart attacks and two car accidents from the panic.

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