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      I think the reason I didn’t know it is because it isn’t true.

      Unless you’re a Lincoln truther who thinks he wasn’t killed in 1865 way before fax machines were available in the USA and Japan.

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        there was a period of around 12 years where it would have been possible, given that they had both been in scotland at the time. between 1853 and 1865 it would have to have been an ex-samurai.

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          But of course they had to wait for the second one to be invented…