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While Captain Jack Sparrow’s expedition is successful in locating the fountain, real-life pursuits for the mythic spring have only met with failure. Science, however, just might succeed where legend has failed.

Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey as Syrena and Sam Claflin as Philip Swift in Disney's "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides" (2011)

Fountain of Youth