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TIL that Michael Rockefeller, son of Senator Nelson Rockefeller and great-grandson of oil magnate John Rockefeller, was very likely eaten by cannibals in New Guinea, and it's speculated that Nelson's mother paid a private investigator $250,000 for recovering Michael's skull from the tribe.

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