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TIL Pitcairn Islands are the least populated democratic nation in the world. Settled in 1789 by mutineers of the famous Mutiny on the Bounty, their descendants make up the bulk of the town's 50-ish residents. The wreck is even still visible underwater in Bounty Bay

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