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TIL Henry Ford built a utopian worker city in the Amazon rainforest to harvest rubber, and the Amazon natives who worked there couldn’t drink, they were forced to square-dance, and sometimes they had knife-fights over the scarce food. It was called ‘Fordlandia.’

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