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TIL from 1970 to 1994, there was a gift dropping operation for North Sentinel island. Coconuts, buckets, sweet potatoes, Yorkshire hog, red linen, rubber balls, sickles, choppers, bead necklaces and citrus saplings were among the gifts dropped to the island

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