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TIL In 1986, biologist Noel Kempff Mercado and his team inadvertently stumbled upon a secret cocaine production facility in Bolivia’s Huanchaca National Park. The drug traffickers subsequently killed Kempff Mercado and most of his team. The national park would later be renamed after Kempff Mercado.

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