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TIL Lawrence Joseph Bader, an Ohio man who vanished in 1957 after a boating trip on Lake Erie. Eight years later, he was found in Omaha, Nebraska, living as John "Fritz" Johnson, a radio and TV personality with no memory of his past life.

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