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TIL that the Mashco Piro and the Yine were once a single Peruvian tribe that was split in 1894 when the rubber baron Carlos Fitzcarrald enslaved it. The Mashco Piro descended from the people who managed to escape, while the Yine descended from the ones who failed.

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