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TIL Germany had secret plans to invade Boston and New York City prior to WWI. It would have required 60 warships, and 100,000 soldiers. German troops were to land at Cape Cod, and Sandy Hook NJ, and fire shells into Boston and Manhattan in an effort to induce panic among civilians.

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