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TIL A Japanese engineer survived both the Hiroshima & Nagasaki nuclear bombs. During the Hiroshima blast, he threw himself into a ditch just 3 kilometers from ground 0. Three days later, his boss in Nagasaki was calling him crazy for saying that a bomb had destroyed Hiroshima when Nakazaki was hit.

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