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TIL that in 1904 a Swedish sailor, Carl Emil Pettersson, was shipwrecked on an island in Papua New Guinea inhabited by cannibals. The kings daughter fell in love with him. They married and he eventually became king of the island.
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TIL Dr. Jane Goodall set herself apart from traditional conventions by naming the animals in her studies of primates instead of assigning each a number. This also led her to develop a close bond with the chimpanzees and to become, to this day, the only human ever accepted into chimpanzee society.
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TIL Tim Duncan was almost an olympic swimmer but took up basketball when Hurricane Hugo destroyed his training pool and he was too afraid of sharks to train in the ocean