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In 1947, Thor Heyerdahl built a balsa-log raft called Kon-Tiki to prove ancient South Americans could have reached Polynesia. Every engineer laughed. His crew of six — most with zero sailing experience — drifted 4,300 nautical miles for 101 days. They survived rogue waves, whale sharks, and a reef crash. Heyerdahl's theory was later ...
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