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TIL about Juan Pedro Martínez Gómez, a 10-year-old boy who was riding with his parents in a tanker carrying 20,000 litres of sulphuric acid. As the truck was passing through the Somosierra mountain pass, it lost control and crashed. Though the bodies of his parents were found, Juan's body vanished.

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