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TIL During the 1996 Vendee Globe, a solo round the world boat race, Pete Goss gave up his chance of winning and despite being 1400 miles from land turned 160 miles back into a storm in order to save the life of another competitor.

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VMOk4 TIL Somali novelist Nuruddin Farah has garnered acclaim as one of the greatest contemporary writers in the world. Farah was warned that the Somali government planned to arrest him, so he began a self-imposed exile that would last for 22 years
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