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TIL-Mystery Behind Percy Fawcett’s Disappearance-He was most famous for his mapmaking expeditions to the Amazon, a place he called the last great blank space in the world. In 1925, at 57 years old he led his last expedition in the Amazon to find the Lost City of Z and was never heard from again.

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