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TIL of the first king of Tibet, Nyatri Tsenpo (literally "Neck-Enthroned King"), an outsider who the Tibetans enthroned and carried on their necks because they believed his strength and physical deformities, which included webbed hands and eyelids closing from the bottom, were signs of his divinity.

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