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TIL of Two-Gun Cohen, a British/Canadian adventurer who was a friend of Sun Yat-sen, helped China get weapons when Japan invaded in 1937, did work for the British in WW2, and when he died in 1970, his funeral was attended by both factions of the Chinese government.

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