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TIL in 1860 that a French man by the name of Antoine de Tounens went to the Araucanía region, proclaimed the Kingdom of Araucanía and Patagonia, and became its first and only king. The country only lasted 2 years as the Chilean authorities occupied the country and arrested him.

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