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TIL the flag of Bikini Atoll is symbolic of the islanders’ belief that a debt is still owed by the U.S. to the atoll because of the thermonuclear detonations on the islands.

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4XAKg TIL after Tama the Station Master Cat died, she was enshrined as a spirit goddess named Tama Daimyōjin (たま大明神) in a nearby Shinto cat shrine.
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