At the Edo-Tokyo museum, I discovered that at the end of WWII, Japan released thousands of hydrogen balloons with bags of gunpowder dangling from them, with the idea that they would float over the Pacific on the jet stream and then obliterate America.
Only one of them was successful, killing six people when a girl at a church picnic in Oregon tried to pull one out of a tree where it had landed. The rest landed without incident apparently, including some in British Columbia. I guess I wasn't paying attention that day in history class, because this was news to me. Am I the last to know?
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