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“Unbeknown to anyone below, Nagasaki was bombed due to passing clouds over Kokura. To this day, the Japanese refer to ‘Kokura’s luck’ when one unknowingly escapes disaster.” https://aeon.co/essays/without-chaos-theory-social-science-will-never-understand-the-world
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