stackyFACTSIn the 1920s, a Canadian woman named Aloha Wanderwell became the first female to circumnavigate the globe in a Ford Model T. To make the brutal trek across unpaved continents even more chaotic, she casually adopted a pet monkey to ride shotgun through the wilderness.
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