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August 07, 2007
This Day In Scandi Infamy
  
MattM. delivers this whole post.
On this day in 1947, Thor “Icicle Chunker” Heyerdahl completed a 101 day, 4,300 mile journey from Peru to Raroia (which I think is the Norwegian word for “Peru”).  He made the entire journey in a balsa wood raft.  He claimed it was for science*, but it turns out that it he’d merely been chasing after a fish he wanted to marry.
*The Scandi word for “science” literally translates to “magic herring.”