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TIL that Kuboyama Aikichi, a Japanese fisherman, was the first known victim of hydrogen bomb radiation exposure. He was aboard the "Lucky Dragon No. 5" (Daigo Fukuryu Maru), a fishing boat caught in radioactive fallout from the 1954 U.S. Castle Bravo hydrogen bomb test near Bikini Atoll.

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