Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
Lincoln Preston and Douglas Child, the authors of Relic and other novels, named one of their protagonists Aloysius Xingu L Pendergast. Does that mouthful sound familiar? The Xingu River is near where Percy Fawcett went missing, and in Preston and Child's fiction, Pendergast is a great-great nephew of Fawcett, the great-great explorer. (Source.)
In 2004, it was suggested that Fawcett entered the jungle one last time and never intended to return. Instead, he planned on setting up a free-lovin' commune built around the worship of his son, Jack. What would he call it, New Jack City? (Source.)
If Charles Lindbergh and Percy Fawcett somehow had a son together—maybe that would be possible in the secret jungle colony we mentioned above?—the child would be the villainous Charles F. Muntz of Up. The director of Up was inspired by both individuals: men with a passion for exploration who were just a tad crazy. (Source.)