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Well, y'all seem to like true crime, so here's an interesting one.

January 26th has always been an important day.

The first Europeans to arrive in both Brazil and Australia arrived on January 26th.

The world's first television was demonstrated on January 26.

Yours truly was born on January 26th.

And on January 26, 1948, towards the end of the working day,

a man claiming to be from the Ministry of Public Health walked into a branch of the Imperial Bank,

or Teukoku-Ginko, often abbreviated to Teigen,

in the Shinamachi District of northwest Tokyo.

He claimed that there had been an outbreak of dysentery in the neighborhood, and offered a

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