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    I like this one (not mine):

    • The samurai were abolished as a caste in Japanese society during the Meiji restoration in 1867
    • The first ever fax machine, the “printing telegraph”, was invented in 1843
    • Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in 1865

    => There was a 22 year window in which samurais could have sent a fax to Abraham Lincoln.

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      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_submarines

      And they could’ve done it from french submarines.

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      And still they didn’t warn him

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        Historians refuse to debate the great Anti-Lincoln samurai fax conspiracy.

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      Was there a phone line network intact enough to send a fax from Japan to the United States…?

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        Wouldn’t have been phone at that point, it’d be wired telegraph. Which I don’t need to elaborate did not go from Japan to the United States but there were exiled Samurai kicking around in Spanish territory for a bit even into the 1800s so possibly one of them could’ve visited the US and sent Lincoln a Fax. Also I think the king of Siam tried to give the Union war elephants during the Civil War which is much weirder.

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      Ooooh that’s a good one

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      Missed opportunity.

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