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TIL a mummified body of German man was found in yacht adrift off Philippines. He had reportedly been sailing the world on his yacht, Sayo, for the past 20 years. The corpse was found slumped at desk ‘like he was sleeping’ in cabin of vessel floating in the Pacific

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