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Double atomic bomb survivor found in Japan
A 93-year-old Japanese man has become the first person to be officially recognised as a survivor of both atomic bombs dropped on Japan by the United States at the end of the Second World War.




http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/5044798/Double-atomic-bomb-survivor-found-in-Japan.html

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Mr Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima on a business trip on Aug 6, 1945, when a US B-29 dropped an atomic bomb on the city. He then returned to his home in Nagasaki just in time for the second attack, officials said.
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Did he buy a lottery ticket after the second one?
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Did he buy a lottery ticket after the second one?
No point in doing that, he'd already used up 2 lifetime supplies of luck.

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