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⚜️The Long, Strange History of Cargo Cults


The Long, Strange History of Cargo Cults
One day in 1900 or 1940, or at some point in between, a man whose name was John Frum — although he might not have been a man, and his name might not have been John Frum — arrived on Tanna island, in an archipelago that was then called the New Hebrides but is now called the Republic of Vanuatu.

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