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TIL that in 1971 A 17 year old Girl Juliane Koepcke was the only survivor of a plane crash in the jungle of Peru. she wandered ten days through the jungle with an injured knee, a broken collarbone and only some sweets as food until she found a group of lumbermen who brought her into a town.

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