"Once in a while you find yourself in an odd situation. You get into it by degrees and in the most natural way but, when you are right in the midst of it, you are suddenly astonished and ask yourself how in the world it all came about."
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Thor Heyerdahl
Thor Heyerdahl,6 October 1914 – 18 April 2002) was a Norwegian adventurer and ethnographer with a background in biology
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