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TIL Starship Troopers is the only science fiction novel recommended by three of the five branches of the US military.

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nWwo9 TIL that during WWII, Japan launched over 9,000 balloon bombs toward the U.S. mainland, carried by the jet stream across the Pacific. These balloon bombs were the first intercontinental weapon system in history and caused the only civilian deaths in the continental U.S. from enemy action during WWII
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