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TIL That, in 2017, the documentary 'Amelia Earhart: The Lost Evidence' aired once on the History Channel. The documentary purported to show a photograph supposedly taken after the her disappearance. The doc was pulled after it was proved the pic was taken from a Japanese travel book from 1935.

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