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Wich famous norwegian once sailed the raft kon-tikiacross the pacific ocean?
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The famous Norwegian who sailed the raft Kon-Tiki was Thor Heyerdahl. Thor was an explorer and writer who sailed from South America to the Polynesian Islands in the Pacific Ocean in 1947.
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