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TIL all 50 residents of Pitcairn Islands are descend from the only survivor of the mutineers who seized the HMS Bounty in 1789. The Europeans and male Tahitians killed each other and only John Adams was left with nine Tahitian women, who married all of them and raised 19 children.

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