The Writer's Almanac - Wednesday, August 7, 2019 - a podcast by Prairie Home Productions
from 2019-08-07T08:00:13
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On this date in 1947, Thor Heyerdahl's raft “Kon-Tiki” crashed into a reef in French Polynesia. He'd sailed from Peru to prove that early South Americans could have traveled across the Pacific.
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