Not only Did I initiate the trans-Atlantic slave trade But also I chopped the hands off any native who did not give me gold
Not only Has NASA named space shuttles after my ships But also I died trying to kidnap the King of Hawaii
Not only Did I spend longer in space than all American astronauts at the time put together But also When I met Queen Elizabeth II, we were both pregnant
Not only Did I work for Kublai Kahn But also I wrote the history of my travels while in prison
Not only Was my greatest journey completed by Juan Sebastian Elcano But also My own country saw me as a traitor and tried to sabotage the voyage
Not only Was I the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe But also The Spanish feared me so much they called me El Draque ('the dragon')
Not only Did I spend 497 days adrift on ice But also My shipwreck got rediscovered in 2022
Not only Do two Sagas describe my adventures But also There are statues of me in Chicago and Reykjavik
Not only Did I cycle from Dublin to Delhi with £64 and a pistol But also I'm often seen as the greatest female travel writer
Not only Did I prove that the magnetic North Pole moves But also My greatest fame came from the other end of the earth
Not only Was I the first European to see Victoria Falls But also I was (presumably) found in Tanzania by the New York Herald
Not only Did I lose 7 toes and a brother to Nanga Parbat But also I was the first to climb every 8,000m peak - and all without oxygen
Not only Was I a child slave But also I did most of my exploring carrying a baby
Not only Did I blaze a trail to Transylvania But also I was adopted by the Shawnee tribe and lived with them
Not only Did I cross the Pacific on a boat made from balsa wood But also I sailed the Atlantic on a boat made from papyrus
Not only Is the movie The Life Aquatic dedicated to me But also I invented the aqualung
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