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Kon-Tiki Voyage - Building a Bet Out of Balsa and Banana Leaves

Kon-Tiki Voyage - Building a Bet Out of Balsa and Banana Leaves

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Jack Maddox examines how Thor Heyerdahl's 1947 Kon-Tiki raft crossed 4,300 miles of Pacific Ocean, defying expert predictions. Built from balsa logs and hemp rope, every feature critics called fatal became key to survival, proving ancient South American engineering surpassed modern naval science.

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