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I like this one (not mine):
=> There was a 22 year window in which samurais could have sent a fax to Abraham Lincoln.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_submarines
And they could've done it from french submarines.
Was there a phone line network intact enough to send a fax from Japan to the United States........?
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.
And still they didn't warn him
Historians refuse to debate the great Anti-Lincoln samurai fax conspiracy.
Ooooh that's a good one
Missed opportunity.