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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/stopitsgingertime on 2025-07-10 17:37:45+00:00.

Original Title: TIL of Fordlândia, Henry Ford's failed rubber utopia in the Amazon jungle. In the 1920s, the colony was home to hundreds of workers living a mandatory alcohol-free "healthy lifestyle," including square-dances, poetry readings, and golf, but ended up totally abandoned after riots and crop failure.

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