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TIL it's dangerous to bathe during a thunderstorm

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LkGMm TIL that a Qing Princess by the name of Yoshiko Kawashima was raised in Japan and served as a spy for the Japanese Kwantung Army and puppet state of Manchukuo during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
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