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Xi's Magical Potato Cult - Yes... For Real - Episode #131

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Mao's Mango Yes You Know What Happened to Mao Mangoes

In 1968 the Pakistani delegation donated some mangoes Mao yeah they came over and they're like hey man goes have some mangoes of course China doesn't have mangoes. People started worshiping mangoes remember Mao gifted the gift to give like mangoes to like some of his top pictures of that okay all right so and they started to enshrine themYeah they started toEnshrine mangoes and walk around worshiping mangoers. They had that mango cup you could go buy that for your ration ticket whatever you could buy mango cup YeahThey would put them in shrines they would display them in museums they had mangoes  and they this was one that was gifted to some workers

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