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TIL that John Allen Chau, an American missionary, was killed in 2018 by the Sentinelese, a self-isolated group of indigenous people who live on North Sentinel Island. When attempting to recover the body, authorities saw tribesmen with bows and arrows on the shore and turned their boat back.

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