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TIL about "Benjaman Kyle": the only person ever placed on the FBI's Missing Persons page, even though his location was known. Kyle was found naked and injured in 2004 next to a Burger King dumpster in Georgia—and claimed to suffer from severe amnesia. His identity was eventually discovered in 2015.

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