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TIL on 18/04/1930 on the BBC News the news was that there was no news.

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X4jX TIL that the ancient board game “Go” was being played at a tournament in Hiroshima in 1945, when the atomic bomb went off only 3 miles way. Though the building was damaged and people were injured, they finished the match later that same afternoon (white won)